Research Catalog
Jack Whitten : Jack's Jacks
- Title
- Jack Whitten : Jack's Jacks / For the Nationalgalerie - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin edited by Udo Kittelmann, Sven Beckstette ; authors: Sven Beckstette [and 7 others].
- Publication
- Berlin, Germany : Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin ; Munich, Germany : Prestel, [2019]
- Passau, Germany : Passavia.
- ©2019
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | ND237.W6234 A4 2019q Oversize | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 237 pages : illustrations, portraits (chiefly color); 30 cm
- Summary
- Jack Whitten's alluring and inventive paintings are part of the collections of some of the world's most prominent museums and galleries--but this profoundly inventive artist worked primarily under the radar for most of his life. This book, conceived with Whitten's collaboration shortly before his death in 2018, brings his work into focus, highlighting in particular the themes of history, politics, and music. As a young man in Alabama, Whitten was angered by the racism he experienced. When he moved to New York City, he was inspired by the Abstract Expressionists dominating the art scene there. This book examines Whitten's influences and alliances--including his relationship to his mentors Norman Lewis and Willem de Kooning--to trace how the artist never stopped experimenting and innovating. His riotously colorful oils gave way to massive acrylic "Slab" paintings. These were followed by kaleidoscopic mosaic paintings that capture and redirect light; the "Black Monoliths" series, memorializing Whitten's personal heroes; and his later works, which embrace technology and the digital age.
- Subjects
- Illustrated works
- Essays
- Exhibition catalogs
- African American artists > Alabama > 21st century > Exhibitions
- African American artists > Alabama > 20th century > Exhibitions
- African American art > United States > 21st century > Exhibitions
- African American art > United States > 20th century > Exhibitions
- Painting, Abstract > 21st century > Exhibitions
- Painting, Abstract > 20th century > Exhibitions
- Whitten, Jack, 1939-2018 > Themes, motives
- Whitten, Jack, 1939-2018 > Criticism and interpretation
- Whitten, Jack, 1939-2018 > Exhibitions
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Essays.
- Illustrated works.
- Event (note)
- "Jack Whitten: Jack's Jacks"
- Language (note)
- Parallel texts in English and German.
- Contents
- Vorwort = Foreword / Gabriele Quandt -- Gefühl und Hoffnug = Emotion and Hope / Udo Kittelmann -- Die Bedeutung der Abstraktion erweitern = Extending the Meaning of Abstraction / Sven Beckstette -- Das musikalische Auge von Jack Whitten = Jack Whitten's Musical Eye / Guthrie P. Ramsay, Jr. -- Brüderlichkeit = Brotherliness / Zoé Whitley -- Two-Eyed Jack = Two-Eyed Jack / David Reed -- Universell und zeitlos = Universal and Timeless / Stanley Whitney -- Ausgewählte Schriften = Selected Writings / Jack Whitten -- Chronologie = Chronology -- Werkliste = List of Works.
- ISBN
- 9783791358628
- 3791358626
- LCCN
- 9783791358628
- OCLC
- on1112503550
- SCSB-9534468
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library