Art as Art
The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt
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253 pages,
June 1991, Only available in Not available in the British Commonwealth, except Canada
Categories: Art; Art Theory
June 1991, Only available in Not available in the British Commonwealth, except Canada
Categories: Art; Art Theory
"Reinhardt . . . remains an urgently contemporary figure in art and the life of art. . . . He has already been a major subterranean influence in the generation of Minimal and Post-Minimal art . . . and seems ready for wide recognition as one of the most significant cultural figures of the past quarter-century."—Peter Schjeldahl, New York Times Book Review
"Rose in the introduction suggests that Reinhardt's ultimate value is as 'a prophet of the realization that high art can only endure as spiritual art.' Well, maybe, but his copious writings are also exuberant, ironic, rancorous and parodistic and, as such, a marvelous commentary on the recent art world."—The Nation
"Rose in the introduction suggests that Reinhardt's ultimate value is as 'a prophet of the realization that high art can only endure as spiritual art.' Well, maybe, but his copious writings are also exuberant, ironic, rancorous and parodistic and, as such, a marvelous commentary on the recent art world."—The Nation
Ad Reinhardt is probably best known for his black paintings, which aroused as much controversy as admiration in the American art world when they were first exhibited in the 1950s. Although his ideas about art and life were often at odds with those of his contemporaries, they prefigured the ascendance of minimalism. Reinhardt's interest in the Orient and in religion, his strong convictions about the value of abstraction, and his disgust with the commercialism of the art world are as fresh and valid today as they were when he first expressed them.