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Colour after Klein : re-thinking colour in modern and contemporary art / edited and introduced by Jane Alison; essay by Nuit Banai.

Contributor(s): Publisher: London : Black Dog, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 191 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portrait ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1904772250
Subject(s):
Contents:
Colour me in / Jane Alison -- Monochromatic interventions: Yves Klein and the topia of spectacular sensibility / Nuit Banai -- Artists: Bas Jan Ader, Joseph Beuys, Louise Bourgeois, James Lee Byars, Sophie Calle, William Eggleston, Spencer Finch, Dan Flavin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Mona Hatoum, Donald Judd, Anish Kapoor, Yves Klein, Bruce Nauman, Hélio Oiticica, Gerhard Richter, Pipilotti Rist, Anri Sala, James Turrell, Andy Warhol -- The war: a brief personal mythology of monochromy, dating from 1954, adaptable in film or in ballet / Yves Klein -- Colour, time and structure / Helio Oiticica -- Review of Yves Klein exhibition at Alexandre Iolas Gallery, Arts Magazine, 1963 / Donald Judd -- Extracts from 'Some aspects of colour in general and red and black in particular' / Donald Judd -- Artist biographies.
Summary: This exhibition reassesses the powerful and important place of colour in contemporary art, offering a fresh way of experiencing iconic works of painting, installation, photography and sculpture by some of the most significant artists of the 20th and 21stcenturies. Louise Bourgeois, William Eggleston, Anish Kapoor, Pipilotti Rist, Anri Sala, James Turrell and Andy Warhol are among the twenty artists on show.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Blue 701.85 ALI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 09256

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held Barbican Art Gallery, 26 May - 11 September 2005.

Includes bibliographies.

Colour me in / Jane Alison -- Monochromatic interventions: Yves Klein and the topia of spectacular sensibility / Nuit Banai -- Artists: Bas Jan Ader, Joseph Beuys, Louise Bourgeois, James Lee Byars, Sophie Calle, William Eggleston, Spencer Finch, Dan Flavin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Mona Hatoum, Donald Judd, Anish Kapoor, Yves Klein, Bruce Nauman, Hélio Oiticica, Gerhard Richter, Pipilotti Rist, Anri Sala, James Turrell, Andy Warhol -- The war: a brief personal mythology of monochromy, dating from 1954, adaptable in film or in ballet / Yves Klein -- Colour, time and structure / Helio Oiticica -- Review of Yves Klein exhibition at Alexandre Iolas Gallery, Arts Magazine, 1963 / Donald Judd -- Extracts from 'Some aspects of colour in general and red and black in particular' / Donald Judd -- Artist biographies.

This exhibition reassesses the powerful and important place of colour in contemporary art, offering a fresh way of experiencing iconic works of painting, installation, photography and sculpture by some of the most significant artists of the 20th and 21stcenturies. Louise Bourgeois, William Eggleston, Anish Kapoor, Pipilotti Rist, Anri Sala, James Turrell and Andy Warhol are among the twenty artists on show.