Screen LibraryJohn Chamberlain : Choices /
"Often identified as the artist who successfully translated Abstract Expressionism into three dimensions, John Chamberlain wound through Franz Schubert, the U.S. Navy, hairdressing, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Black Mountain College poets on his path to art. In Chicago, Chamberlain ad...
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Guggenheim Museum Publications,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2012] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Often identified as the artist who successfully translated Abstract Expressionism into three dimensions, John Chamberlain wound through Franz Schubert, the U.S. Navy, hairdressing, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Black Mountain College poets on his path to art. In Chicago, Chamberlain admired the work of Willem de Kooning and David Smith and learned to weld. Black Mountain instilled in him an intuitive collage sensibility and an approach to language that favored the visual appearance and sounds of words, dissociating them from their definitions. Chamberlain moved to New York in 1956 a |
| Item Description: | Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Feb. 24-May 13, 2012, and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain, Mar.-Sept. 2013. |
| Carrier Form: | 247 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780892074174 : 0892074175 9780892074266 0892074264 |
| Index Number: | NB237 |
| CLC: | J331(712) |
| Call Number: | J331(712)/C443 |