Hatje Cantz — Ramsj

Piet Mondrian – Barnett Newman – Dan Flavin

bwhontwerpers — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 14:06:16 +0000

Although the three prominent modernist artists Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Barnett Newman (1905-1970), and Dan Flavin (1933-1996) each belong to a different generation, all of them have devoted their creativity to abstract art in groundbreaking ways. Under various intellectual and social auspices they relied upon ascetics in their unheard-of radical dealings with art. Using pure color, concrete form, and new materials, they expanded the dimensions of art into the universal. This volume appears in conjunction with a large, special exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel, and features each of the three artists in chronological order, so that the sequencing gives rise to enlightening nexuses. The book presents masterpieces, while juxtaposing seldom-seen works.

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Charles Brittin

bwhontwerpers — Wed, 29 May 2019 13:51:12 +0000

Throughout the fifties, Los Angeles-based Charles Brittin (1928) was the unofficial house photographer for the beatniks who coalesced around the artist Wallace Berman. Brittin had settled in Venice Beach in 1951, and his tiny shack on the beach became a hangout for the creative circle around Berman, which included actor Dean Stockwell, artist John Altoon, curator Walter Hopps, and poet David Meltzer, among many others.

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Picasso Badende

bwhontwerpers — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 13:21:11 +0000

Myths of the sea: Picasso’s charming scenes of bathers and the beach, taken from all of his creative phases.

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