Sherrie Levine: After Reinhardt

Author:   Ad Reinhardt
Publisher:   David Zwirner
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9781644230091


Pages:   76
Publication Date:   29 August 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Sherrie Levine: After Reinhardt


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"The renowned American artist Sherrie Levine engages her ongoing practice of appropriating artworks from the Western art historical canon-this time taking Ad Reinhardt's Blue Paintings as a point of departure. Monochromes After Reinhardt: 1-28 (2018) continues the artist's ongoing investigation of color separated from its representational function. Inspired by the exhibition Ad Reinhardt: Blue Paintings held at David Zwirner, New York in 2017, Levine has created abstract restatements of the 28 works that were on view, making use of pixilation to consolidate the range of blue tones in each painting into a single, truly monochromatic value. This work revisits a technique first employed by Levine in her 1989 group of woodcut prints Meltdown, where an averaging algorithm was used to create a checkerboard composition based on modernist artists' iconic paintings. Sherrie Levine: After Reinhardt is published on the occasion of Levine's eponymous solo exhibition at David Zwirner's Upper East Side location in New York in 2019. The publication features full color reproductions of Monochromes After Reinhardt: 1-28 and includes the 1965 text ""Reinhardt Paints a Picture,"" in which Reinhardt famously interviewed himself."

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Author:   Ad Reinhardt
Publisher:   David Zwirner
Imprint:   David Zwirner
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9781644230091


ISBN 10:   1644230097
Pages:   76
Publication Date:   29 August 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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As always with Levine, perfect craft secretes choked emotion. It's as if somebody somewhere were angry about something, but incommunicado. Whose problem is this? Ours, alas, on account of the work's remorseless beauty. --Peter Schjeldahl The New Yorker Inspired by the exhibition Ad Reinhardt: Blue Paintings, Levine has created abstract restatements of the twenty-eight works that were on view, making use of pixelation to consolidate the range of blue tones in each painting into a single, truly monochromatic value. -- Tique


As always with Levine, perfect craft secretes choked emotion. It's as if somebody somewhere were angry about something, but incommunicado. Whose problem is this? Ours, alas, on account of the work's remorseless beauty. --Peter Schjeldahl The New Yorker Inspired by the exhibition Ad Reinhardt: Blue Paintings, Levine has created abstract restatements of the twenty-eight works that were on view, making use of pixelation to consolidate the range of blue tones in each painting into a single, truly monochromatic value. --Peter Schjeldahl Tique


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"Sherrie Levine's (b. 1947) work engages many of the core tenets of postmodern art, incisively challenging notions of originality, authenticity, and identity. Since the late 1970s, she has created a singular and complex oeuvre using a variety of media, including photography, painting, and sculpture. Many of her works are explicitly appropriated from artworks within the modernist canon, while others are more general in their references, assimilating art historical interests and concerns rather than specific objects. Some of Levine's earliest work was included in Pictures, an important exhibition at Artists Space in New York in 1977 curated by Douglas Crimp that came to define The Pictures Generation-a group of artists examining the structures of signification underlying any image. Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967) is among the most significant American artists of the twentieth century. His paintings encourage the viewer's active engagement in the act of looking at and experiencing ""art as art."" As he declared, ""Art is art. Everything else is everything else."

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