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Jack Whitten: Cosmic Soul

Sale price$45.00

This comprehensive monograph, authored by art historian Richard Shiff, offers a multifaceted and critical interpretation of Jack Whitten’s art-making and philosophy of life. Informed both by Whitten’s extensive writings and his personal conversations with the author, ‘Cosmic Soul’ offers a close reading of the artist’s outlook. Vividly illustrated and ranging freely through the course of the artist’s remarkable six-decade career, Shiff’s text illuminates the distinctive character of Whitten’s thought and the art it generated.

Jack Whitten: Cosmic Soul
Jack Whitten: Cosmic Soul Sale price$45.00

Language

English

Publisher

Hauser & Wirth Publishers

Composition

Swiss-bound softcover

Contributors

Richard Shiff

Pages

360 pages

Size

19.2 x 25.5 cm

ISBN

9783906915739

Publication Date

Oct-22

The Artist

JACK WHITTEN

Born in Bessemer, Alabama in 1939, Jack Whitten is celebrated for his innovative processes of applying paint to the surface of his canvases and transfiguring their material terrains. Although Whitten initially aligned with the New York circle of abstract expressionists active in the 1960s, his work gradually distanced from the movement’s aesthetic philosophy and formal concerns, focusing more intensely on the experimental aspects of process and technique that came to define his practice.

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