Author: Richard Pousette-Dart; Philip Rylands
Title: Richard Pousette-Dart: Works 1940-1992. (Catalog of an Exhibition Held at Pace London, January 18-February 20, 2019; and Pace New York, May 14-June 22, 2019. )
Description: New York: Pace Gallery, 2019. 4to. 69 pp. Soft cover. Near Fine. Illustrated paper wraps. Color plates throughout. ISBN: 9781948701143 1948701146. Richard Pousette-Dart was the youngest member of the first generation of Abstract Expressionists; the artist, along with several of his important contemporaries, took part in the formative meeting of Studio 35 and is included in the iconic Irascibles photograph. In 1951, Pousette-Dart moved with his young family to Rockland County where a small artistic community had formed. This meant that although he was an influential member of the New York school his remove allowed him to continue to develop and maintain a unique methodology and style. The artist's relative longevity provided him the time to expand upon his earlier work, developing a mature body of work rooted in his mysticism, symbolism, and spiritual beliefs. As Philip Rylands, Director Emeritus of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection states, in the catalogue which will accompany the exhibition, he engaged with one of the highest aspirations of the twentieth-century avant-garde: to paint a dimension inaccessible to photography. Others painted the fourth dimension, states of mind, consciousness per se, swift motion, or the passing of time, but Pousette-Dart painted the world of the spirit. .

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