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Barnett Newman was one of the most profiund and influential artists of the twentieth century. A master of expansive spatial effects and evocative colour, he pioneered painting that was both uncompromisingly abstract and powerfully emotive. This publication will be a long overdue re-examination of his life and art. Featuring more than one hundred of his paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures, each reproduced in full colour. Accompanies the exhibition held at Tate Modern, Autumn/Winter 2002/3.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #1371685 in Books
• Published on: 1999-11
• Original language: German
• Binding: Hardcover
• 336 pages

From Library Journal
Large canvases covered with a single color "zipped" apart by a vertical strip, bold color field paintings with frayed edges, slim columns of steel and hovering pyramidal forms, each providing the viewer with a subjective experience of self and an objective observation of the image: this is the genius of Barnett Newman. With an equally wide range of vision, Zweite offers a scholarly insight into the work, a formidable task quite successfully accomplished in this important volume. Originally published to accompany the first major exhibition of Newman's work in Germany, this is far more than a catalog of works. It is indispensable for anyone interested in understanding one of the major figures in American art of the last half of our century.
-Paula Frosch, Metropolitan Museum of Art Lib., New York
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From Booklist
Newman (1905-70), the son of Jewish Polish immigrants, worked slowly and contemplatively, unlike his frenzied friend, Jackson Pollock. He made a modest number of paintings and had few major exhibitions, yet by virtue of his "shockingly minimal" paintings and eloquently radical theories about art (he was as loquacious as his paintings were quiet), was a phenomenally influential creative force. Curator Temkin, whose last book resurrected the painter Alice Neel, oversaw the first-ever posthumous retrospective of Newman's work, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and put together this marvelously evocative catalog in which stunning reproductions are matched with biographical and critical essays and other valuable documentation. Temkin and her contributors illuminate the thought and emotion that went into Newman's deceptively simple paintings, large fields of deep, textured color dramatically divided by vertical lines, or "zips." Newman's restrained yet vibrant paintings are just the sort of modern art people love to mock--in fact, he drolly collected cartoons poking fun at abstract painting--but his work, essential and transcendent, embodies a genuine quest for liberty and spiritual insight. Donna Seaman
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From the Publisher
This book accompanies the first retrospective exhibition of Barnett Newman's work in three decades. The show will be on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from March 24 to July 7, 2002, and will appear at the Tate Modern in London from September 19, 2002 to January 5, 2003. Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art