Michael Goldberg

Kalina, Richard

Joslyn Art Museum

Changing Boundaries and Nature of the Modern Art World, The: The Art Object and the Object of Art (Aesthetics and Contemporary Art)

Concentrating on the shifting boundaries and definition of art, Richard Kalina offers a panoramic view of the contemporary art scene over the last 30 years. His focus is on the ongoing development of concepts, the transformation of art worlds and the social matrices in which they are created. Discussing painting in general and abstract painting in particular, his survey takes in photorealism, sculpture and art forms found outside of the modernist tradition. Kalina's group of artists includes Mel Bochner, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, Franz West, and Alma Thomas who, in their ongoing projects, explicitly or implicitly questioned the aesthetic assumptions of their times. Merging an examination of animating philosophies and context - political, social, and personal - with a sharply focused look at the works of art themselves, Kalina brings us closer to understanding the social matrices in which art is embedded and responds to bigger questions about the object nature of the work of art in today's world.

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Bloomsbury Academic

A monograph on the art of Judith Murray.

From Vibrato to Legato: Judith Murray

Heiss, Alanna

Leffingwell, Edward

Individual Artists

Mapin Publishing Gp Pty Ltd

Jonathan Lasker's work is often considered bizarre, yet it is one of the most influential in contemporary abstract art. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, a period when everything was in flux, when Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and Color Field painting were no longer formally binding, Lasker succeeded like no one else in realizing themes such as referentiality, figuration, genuine materiality and corporeality, even aspects of the decorative and pictorial. The tastefully executed paintings and carefully crafted objects of the 1960s had reached the end of their days in terms of form; there was a recourse to styles and materials that not only served artists as art historical sources but as New Image painting, patterns, and decorations, and resulted in new artistic content. In short, abstraction as understood and applied by Jonathan Lasker had reached the postmodern age. This volume shows a series of beautiful preliminary studies of this process on paper, as well as large-format oil paintings from 1977 to 1981 that demonstrate their their radical pictorial implementation.

Jonathan Lasker: Form Drawings an White Form Paintings: Kienbaum Artists’ Books 2021

Snoeck Publishing Company

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