Art as Art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

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University of California Press, Jun 6, 1991 - Art - 236 pages
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.
 

Contents

Editors Note 349
3
Reinhardt Paints a Picture 1965 II
11
Monologue 1970
23
Illustrations
29
Editors Note
81
On Negation undated
102
Imageless Icons undated
108
Editors Note
117
Editors Note
171
What are Artists Crimes as Artists? 1963
178
Editors Note
185
Creation as Content undated
191
Editors Note
197
Twelve Rules for a New Academy 1957
203
Editors Note
211
Angkor and Art 1961
218

To Be Part of Things undated
123
Worldliness undated
129
The Artist is Responsible
135
Editors Note
147
Art vs History 1966
224
Bibliography
228
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Barbara Rose is the author of books on Joan Miro, Claes Oldenburg, Lee Krasner, and Ellsworth Kelly and has twice received the College Art Association's Mather Award for distinguished criticism.

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