Description
This career-spanning survey deals with all of Joe Zucker's various bodies of work, from his grid paintings of the 1960s to his latest pieces, including the monumental 1000 Brushstrokes (2015-1016). Zucker's art is rooted in a conceptual framework where tools, materials, processes, procedures, content and subject matter are all interrelated.Working with materials ranging from cotton balls, sash cord, peg board and squeegees to acrylic and rhoplex, and exploring such themes as the grid, the history of cotton, ancient civilizations, an assortment of 'dubious characters', paintings that paint themselves, as well as meditations on the studio, Zucker merges materials, process and content - abstract and otherwise - to produce compelling works of extraordinary inventiveness, irony and passion.
The first comprehensive monograph on the art of Joe Zucker
About the Author
John Elderfield is Chief Curator Emeritus of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Allen R. Adler, Class of 1967, Distinguished Curator and Lecturer at the Princeton University Art Museum; and a consultant at Gagosian Gallery. Alex Bacon is a scholar, writer and curator, who is currently finishing his PhD in art history at Princeton University. Terry R. Myers is Professor of Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Phong Bui is an artist, writer, independent curator, and co-founder, editor in chief, and publisher of The Brooklyn Rail.
Book Information
ISBN 9780500239650
Author John Elderfield
Format Hardback
Page Count 256
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Weight(grams) 2000g