COLORFIELD PAINTING: MINIMAL, COOL, HARD EDGE, SERIAL AND
POST-PAINTERLY ABSTRACT ART OF THE SIXTIES TO THE PRESENT
Painting in the 1960s produced some of art's most lyrical and
distinctive works: it was termedColorfield, Hard Edge, Minimal, and
post-painterly abstraction, and was linked with Pop Art, Op (or
optical) Art, chromatic art, kinetic abstraction, wholistic art,
pure-painting, geometric abstraction, ABC Art, Cool Art,
Non-gestural Painting, Non- Relationalism, Abstract Mannerism and
Abstract Sublime painting.
The painters linked in this new study with 'Colorfield', 'Hard
Edge' 'Minimal' and 'Post-Painterly Abstraction' painting include
Minimal artists such as Brice Marden, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, Ad
Reinhardt and Robert Ryman; Colorfield painters such as Helen
Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, Sam Gilliam and Morris Louis;
post-painterly abstractionists such as Frank Stella, David Novros,
Richard Diebenkorn, Al Held, Jo Baer and Jules Olitski; and Hard
Edge painters such as Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Mangold, Joseph
Albers and Elisabeth Murray.
Colorfield, Minimal, Hard Edge and Post-Painterly Abstract
painting had a distinctly American (and New York) flavour to it,
even if it was not produced in America or by US artists. In Bruce
Glaser's "Questions to Andre and Judd," Donald Judd continually
stressed the point that the new (Minimal) art was definitely
American and non-European. The New World not the Old World. Time
and again Judd insisted that the new art was to trying to get away
from the European tradition. 'It suits me fine if that's all down
the drain', Judd said. 'I'm totally uninterested in European art
and I think it's over with.'
Many of the Colorfield and Sixties painters have made extremely
brilliantly colorful works in the 1960s, then turned back to the
sombre colors of grey and black in the late 1980s and 1990s.
Painters such as Brice Marden, Frank Stella, Jasper Johns and Jules
Olitski are ambiguous about saturated color: they moved back and
forth from monochrome greys and blacks to full color. In the late
1980s and the 1990s, painters such as Frank Stella, Ellsworth
Kelly, Jules Olitski and Larry Poons moved from bright color to
muted monochrome. Mid-1990s works by Frank Stella were unpainted,
using instead the natural colors of metal and wood; Brice Marden
turned from his luscious monochromes of the 1970s and 1980s to the
black-and-white of Chinese calligraphy in the Cold Mountain series
and other works.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: There are chapters on each of the key painters of
the 1960s, whose works continue to inspire and entertain. I have
revised the book for this edition, bringing it up to date. I hope
readers will discover some new insights into many of their
favourite artists.
Fully illustrated, with notes and bibliography. Large format.
220 pages. ISBN 9781861713940.
This third edition has been completely rewritten.
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