Hans Burkhardt Paintings of the 1960's

This major exhibition catalogue features provocative works for the decade of the 1960s. Hans Burkhardt's career spans the late 1920s and 1930s when he shared the studio of Arshile Gorky in New York, to his final works of the early 1990s in Los Angeles. This publication documents paintings which extended abstract expressionism into poignant realms mirroring the social revolution that informed the decade of the 60s. Included are monumental works such as "My Lai," regarded by scholars to be one of the major paintings of modern art. 88 pages with 76 illustrations, essay and chronology.