On Kawara _ Silence
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (851 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0892075198 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Yet his work stands apart in its devotion to painting and its existential reach. Kawara's primary body of work, which occupied him until his death in 2014, is the Today series, a sequence of paintings produced according to strict protocols of size, color and technique. On Kawara Silence is published in conjunction with a major exhibition of Kawara's post-1964 work at the Solomon R. Among other groups of works, the book includes images of the 97 Date Paintings (accompanied by their newspaper-lined storage boxes) that Kawara produced duri
If you enjoy (or want to better understand) the work on On katy This catalog takes a very thorough look look at the work of On Kawara with incredible writings by admirable scholars and critics. The text by Daniel Buren takes an especially lucid look at the conceptual art in general. If you enjoy (or want to better understand) the work on On Kawara, or conceptual art in general, this is is an important book and a great case study.. Tim Midyett said Keepsake of a great show. Mindblowing Guggenheim exhibit--this can't compare, but it reminds me that I saw the thing in real life and makes me happy I was able to do so.. Five Stars Amazon Customer Molt bo
The artist died last year while preparing this show - instantly transforming his sequential paintings from an open-ended feat to a closed structure - and I had expected, when the show was announced, that Kawara’s insistently spare art would feel funereal in the Guggenheim’s grand spiral. It brings cosmic time down to human scale, and then makes an individual life feel as broad as the universe. Like each of his date paintings, the exhibition is somehow awesome and modest at once. I was wrong; it is a joy. Kawara stuck to the facts and also transcended them, endowing them with a resonant appeal and a sense of form as fine-tuned as any Minimalist sculptor’s. It reckons with the grandest questions of being and time, an