This monograph presents a thorough overview of the work of the Danish artist Thomas Bang (b. 1938). Essays by four Danish art historians trace his years as a painter in the early 1960s, his subsequent development as a sculptor in the late 1960s, and his activity on the New York art scene through the 1980s. The primary emphasis of the book is on Bang's three-dimensional work and the analysis of the range of issues on which his object- and installation-oriented work has been focused for several decades.
Thomas Bang has throughout his career focused on various issues of fragility and vulnerability as physical as well as psychological states. The emphasis of his sculpture is on creating a broad field of operations, where alterations of apparent initial intentions and meaning are gradually established in the development of the work.

About the Author

Thomas Bang, born Denmark 1938. Studies: Cleveland Institute of Art 1958-61; Yale University 1961-62, B.F.A; University of Southern Calif. 1962-64, M.F.A.; Fulbright Grant to Germany 1964-65; Teaching: Assistant Professor, Art, University of California 1965-70; Professor, Art, University of Rochester 1970-91, N.Y. Participated in numerous painting and drawing exhibitions in California and nationally 1962-1967: Biennial of Contemporary Painting, 1967, Whitney Museum of Art, New York City; Solo exhibitions: Museum of Contemporary Art 1964, La Jolla, Calif.; Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1965, Calif. Began working in the sculpture area in 1967. Participated in exhibitions focused on the new sculpture emerging within the areas of post-minimalism and process-art: Between Object and Environment 1969, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Soft Art 1969, New Jersey State Museum; When Attitudes Become Form 1969-70, Kunsthalle Bern / Museen Haus Lange, Krefeld / Institute of Contemporary Art, London; New Materials - New Procedures 1970, Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.; Twenty-six by Twenty-six 1971, The Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Art 1973, Whitney Museum of Art, N.Y.C.

Book Information
ISBN 9783735607195
Author Mikkel Bogh
Format Hardback
Page Count 352
Imprint Kerber Verlag
Publisher Kerber Verlag
Weight(grams) 2559g