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Frank Bowling : mappa mundi /

Featuring numerous works and rarely seen large-scale paintings from Frank Bowling's sweeping 60-year career, this book highlights the artist's magnificent use of sensuous color and rich texture in pictures that are at once absorbing and tactile. When they were first exhibited in the late 1...

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Main Authors: Bowling, Frank, 1936
Corporate Authors: Haus der Kunst München; Irish Museum of Modern Art Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland; Sharjah Art Foundation
Group Author: Enwezor, Okwui
Published: Haus der Kunst ; Prestel,
Publisher Address: Munich, Germany : Munich :
Publication Dates: 2018.
©2017
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Bowling, Frank, > 1936- > Exhibitions
Bowling, Frank, > 1936- > Correspondence
Color-field painting > Exhibitions
Art informel > Exhibitions
Painting, British > 20th century > Exhibitions
Painting, British > 21st century > Exhibitions
Painting, Modern > 20th century > Exhibitions
Painting, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions
Artists, Black > Great Britain > Exhibitions
Painters, Black > Exhibitions
Summary: Featuring numerous works and rarely seen large-scale paintings from Frank Bowling's sweeping 60-year career, this book highlights the artist's magnificent use of sensuous color and rich texture in pictures that are at once absorbing and tactile. When they were first exhibited in the late 1960s, Frank Bowling's immense "map paintings" were widely celebrated for their vibrant color and subtle modulation of the painted surface. These works, like many in Bowling's oeuvre, draw on the principle of mapping to create a kind of mental geography, woven throughout with personal and historic imagery. T
Item Description: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Haus der Kunst, Munich, June 23, 2017-January 7, 2018; IMMA, Irish Museum of Modern Art, March 24-July 8, 2018; and Sharjah Art Foundation, September-December 2018.
Carrier Form: 286 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, facsimiles ; 30 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-281) and index.
ISBN: 9783791356587
3791356585
9783791367699
3791367692
Index Number: ND497
CLC: J231(561)-28
Call Number: J231(561)-28/B787
Contents: Directors' Foreword /
Mappa Mundi: Frank Bowling's Cognitive Abstraction /
Charting the Atlantic Sublime /
Known Waters: Frank Bowling's Painterly Insights and Outlooks /
Works in the Exhibition /
To Walk the Waters of the World /
Selected Works: 1960-2015 /
Selected Writings: 1969-1993 /
Correspondence--Frank Bowling and Clement Greenberg /
Frank Bowling: An Annotated Biography

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