Frankenthaler: Works on Paper 1949-1984

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Helen Frankenthaler has received international recognition since the 1950s, when, in her twenties, she emerged as a leading New York artist who played a pivotal role in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to the Colorfield painting of the 1960s. While she is perhaps best known for her radiant canvases, it is in her intimate works on paper, which are less familiar, that she first experimented with aspects of her innovative style and techniques. In this body of work can be found her initial essays with staining, an important element in her work of the late 1960s, as well as her 'clumps' of paint set directly on the paper surface, which figure prominently in her most recent production. Over the past decade, in fact, the artist's works on paper have assumed a stature equal to that of her canvases and often catch the most highly charged and vibrant aspects of her art. By focusing on these works on paper, Frankenthaler's masterful use of drawing, space, and colour is redefined to shed new light on her entire career.

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Frankenthaler at Eighty

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Frankenthaler at Eighty commemorates painter Helen Frankenthaler's eightieth birthday with a selection of masterworks from her own collection. Published concurrently with an exhibition at New York's Knoedler & Company, this handsome volume--the cover of which features Frankenthaler's great painting, "A Green Thought in a Green Shade" (1981)--pays tribute to the painter's long and distinguished career, with a fully illustrated survey of the works chosen for the exhibition, which represent quintessential paintings from each period of her career. Also included are historic photographs of Frankenthaler and a detailed chronology studded with reprinted images from periodicals, including art magazine covers. An essay by curator Karen Wilkin--who worked closely with Frankenthaler in the curation of this exhibition, and who has worked with the painter extensively for decades--sheds new light on the painter's tremendous contribution to American art during the last half-century.

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Helen Frankenthaler Prints

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Helen Frankenthaler

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Helen Frankenthaler, an early pioneer of the stained-canvas method, has produced a body of paintings, sculpture and prints whose impact on contemporary art has been significant. This study of the artist's career offers an analysis of the year-by-year evolution of her art.

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Customer Reviews

A Fabulous Book, Worth Every Buck
This book is one of my treasures. The work is amazing as are the plates. What a gift.

I am sorry that another customer used this reviewing system to rate the post office, or her vendor. This book is worth 10 stars.

2009-12-07 | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 5

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Helen Frankenthaler
My book has still not arrived yet, the money came out of my account three months ago and it's still not here. Please reply why and where is it..??

Dianne Taylor WA Australia

2009-09-29 | Di Taylor (WA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 1

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A Masterpiece On Frankenthaler
As a long-time fan of Helen Frankenthaler, I bought this weighty coffee-table book as inspiration to myself as an artist. The book, like Frankenthaler herself, has abstract art bigger than life, imaginative, colorful, transcendently beautiful: unafraid and on the edge. Artists and art lovers everywhere can benefit from this tome. Magnificent plates throughout are true to life color.

2008-01-09 (USA) | Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 5

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Frankenthaler: The Woodcuts (Helen Frankenthaler)

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Widely considered one of the most important contemporary artists, Helen Frankenthaler is internationally celebrated for her role in the development of Color Field painting and for her exquisite color-saturated canvases. This publication is the first devoted to Frankenthaler's woodcuts: a body of work that represents a singular achievement by an American painter. Published to coincide with an exhibition of these extraordinary prints, Helen Frankenthaler: The Woodcuts features all twenty-four editions of the woodcuts Frankenthaler has made to date. No artist working today has achieved such painterly results with woodcut, the oldest printmaking medium. And yet her woodcuts are never simply translations of painting into print. They are, above all, woodcuts, which acknowledge and utilize the properties of the medium to great effect. In Frankenthaler's prints, the wood's grain carries color, and the paper's surface holds it. Beginning with the delicate East and Beyond (1973), her first woodcut, and concluding with the triptych Madame Butterfly (2000), the evolution of Frankenthaler's woodcuts is traced. Also reproduced are paintings on wood for Madame Butterfly and the Tales of Genji series (1998), inspired by Murasaki Shikibu's classic narrative work and the Japanese Ukiyo-e tradition. The working and trial proofs that precede the final editions and the monotype and unique works that follow them are reproduced as well. The book also includes photographs of woodblocks and progressive proofs that allow the reader to see the technical aspects of printmaking. 64 color illustrations.

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Customer Reviews

nice little book
I was turned on to this book after looking at the massive Frankenthaler monograph and seeing a few of her gorgeous woodcuts. This book is not very big, but it has a number of very nice plates, all of which are printed in full color, on full pages. What is also nice about this book is that it shows most of the woodcuts in every stage of development. It has a description of the print/printing process on one page and the completed print on the opposite page, followed by all of the editions of that print. There is even a double gatefold of the woodcut featured on the cover, along with a faux-woodgrain hard cover beneath the dust jacket.

2008-12-03 | drop acid not bombs (New York, USA) | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 5

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Helen Frankenthaler: A Paintings Retrospective

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Grandiloquent Beauty
Helen Frankenthaler is hard to digest. Following the trail blazed by the great abstract expressionists she took off on her own. That being, she "invented" color field painting. And therein lies the rub. Some people love it, others hate it. So a good book is in order so as to get a good perspective on what this is all about.

Indeed this proves to be a great book spanning the career of this eloquent artist. A paintings retrospective featuring 40 paintings. Great color reproduction. Informative essay accompanying each work. Good interpretations and discussions. Frankenthaler's words are quoted liberally. One comes away with a good sence of what the artist is trying to accomplish, the compendium of her work career, and how she fit into her art era.

The only down side of this book is that there is no biography per se. Her life starts out of thin air and the book just ends without closure. But if you want to see some great color field paintings and get to know what its all about, then this is a worthy book.

2010-03-04 (Triangulum, M33) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

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