Author: Novak, Barbara
Title: Wolf Kahn: Pastels
Description: New York, Harry N. Abrams, 2000. Hardcover. Blue fabric casebound book. There is a dust jacket with the title in white down a light multi-colored spine. Pages: (5), 6-156. Profusely illustrated with color images. "Among the artists who came of age in the 1950s and 1960s, Wolf Kahn chose not to work in the prevailing abstract mode, but instead concentrated on representation, particularly of the landscape. Kahn's work in this vein emphasizes color - at first in austere, tonalist images, and later in brilliant, high-keyed paintings that have established his reputation as one of the most important colorists working in America today." Contents are as follows: Introduction / Barbara Novak -- To Begin: Why Pastel? -- The "Real Value" of One's Work -- Formal Relations -- "Studies" -- "Interesting Lines" -- Start -- Hard Work -- The Use and Misuse of Drawing -- Early Pastels -- Pastel Drawing -- Snow -- The C & O Canal -- Reaching -- The Color Purple -- Position -- "Composition" -- Spring -- Openness, Density, Transparency -- Simplicity -- Dry -- Wet -- Drastic Changes -- Confrontation -- "Light Sponges" -- Using Photographs -- The Weight of the Sky -- Working from Nature -- Color -- Celebrating a Single Color -- Bright Orange -- Zagreb -- Italy -- Venice -- Riversides -- Scale -- Barns -- Glow -- Trying to be Nature -- Wilful Ambiguity or the Excluded Middle -- Fall -- Concave and Convex -- Strategies and Meanings -- Tangles -- When is it Finished? -- Wolf Kahn: Chronology / Ellen Russotto. VG/VG: Exlibrary book. Sticker on dust jacket at the base of the spine. Stamps on top and bottom text blocks.

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