Black Paintings
WHAT IS THERE TO SEE?
On a Painting by Ad Reinhardt
From MoMA Members Quarterly (Summer 1991).
Reinhardt in his studio. Courtesy the Ad Reinhardt Foundation.
Contributor
Yve-Alain BoisYVE-ALAIN BOIS is Professor of Art History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.
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AD REINHARDT: Blue Paintings
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Ad Reinhardt is known as an artist of extremes. While committed to abstract painting that became infamous for its austerity, he also had an expansive curiosity about art and the world. He was a vocal critic of the art market and his peers, as well as a proselytizer of art and architecture from disparate regions and periods, which he obsessively photographed for slide lectures.
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This presentation at David Zwirner Gallery is the largest exhibition of Ad Reinhardt’s blue paintings ever assembled, and the first dedicated to them since a seminal 1965 show at the Stable Gallery.
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Catalogue raisonnés, by surveying the totality of the work of a single artist, have traditionally served as resources for specialists, such as art historians and dealers.
