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A multifaceted, critical interpretation of celebrated American artist Jack Whitten's art and thinking over six decades, informed by the artist's extensive writings and personal conversations with the author. 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.

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No standard monograph could quite hold Whitten's artistic imagining, so JACK WHITTEN: COSMIC SOUL reimagines the art book as something that feels improvisatory and free, letting Whitten's six decades of art roam aside commentary that keeps up rather than corrals.--David O'Neill Bookforum

"[Presents] a thoroughly original body of painting and sculpture that meditated on race through the prism of his own cosmological philosophy.-- ""ARTnews"" No standard monograph could quite hold Whitten's artistic imagining, so JACK WHITTEN: COSMIC SOUL reimagines the art book as something that feels improvisatory and free, letting Whitten's six decades of art roam aside commentary that keeps up rather than corrals.--David O'Neill ""Bookforum"""

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