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PublisherHauser & Wirth
ISBN-103907493117
ISBN-139783907493113
eBay Product ID (ePID)11073908421
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Book TitleJack Whitten: Notes from the Woodshed
Number of Pages568 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2025
TopicCriticism & Theory
IllustratorYes
GenreArt
AuthorKaty Siegel
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height1.8 in
Item Weight42.5 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width6.7 in
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ReviewsThis is a delightful book that brings together 55 years of late artist Jack Whitten's studio journal, featuring jotted-down notes, observations, idioms, sketches, and other oddities that chart the curious mind of the artist on every page.
Dewey Edition23
Afterword byGuidelli-Guidi, Matilde, Whitley, Zoé, Ligon, Glenn
Dewey Decimal730.92
SynopsisA classic collection of Whitten's writings and process notes, updated to include additional transcriptions and a new afterword A Black man who grew up in the Jim Crow South, Jack Whitten arrived in New York in 1959 and began a wide-ranging exploration into the nature of painting and artmaking that would sustain more than five decades of work. Early in his career, in 1970, Whitten experienced his breakthrough moment: when he lifted a thick slab of paint off its support, he realized he could experiment within the physical, dimensional space of the paint itself. Approaching abstraction as scientist and mystic, Whitten probed the expressive and material possibilities of painting. He constantly changed styles, developed new methods and took up new subject matter, but it is precisely this spirit of curious inquiry that unites his relentlessly experimental career. Notes from the Woodshed collects the artist's notes from his work in the studio alongside selected interviews and texts. Edited by Katy Siegel, one of Whitten's long-standing champions, this volume offers an intimate look at the artist in his element: the studio. Now in its second edition, this publication is the definitive resource on Whitten's writings, presenting a fully transcribed collection of the artist's handwritten logs. Selections from these writings are illustrated with facsimiles of the originals, giving us a feel for the studio and for Whitten's hand, animating his remarkable line of thought. This edition also features a new afterword in the form of a conversation on Whitten between curators Matilde Guidelli-Guidi and Zoé Whitley and artist Glenn Ligon that sketches out the different forms a deep engagement with his writings might take. Jack Whitten (1939-2018) was born in Bessemer, Alabama, and studied at the Cooper Union in New York. The Whitney mounted a solo exhibition of his paintings in 1974; in 1983 the Studio Museum in Harlem held a 10-year retrospective. In 2014, a retrospective exhibition was organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, traveling to the Wexner Center for the Arts in 2015 and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 2015 and 2016. Whitten lived in Queens, New York, until his death., A new, fully transcribed edition of the celebrated collection of Jack Whitten's wide-ranging, perceptive writings When it was originally published in 2018, Notes from the Woodshed marked the first time that a book had been devoted to the writings of pioneering American artist Jack Whitten. Edited by art historian Katy Siegel, this new edition of the celebrated publication now presents a fully transcribed collection of Whitten's insightful, searching writings, alongside a new afterword in the form of a conversation between curators Matilde Guidelli-Guidi and Zoé Whitley and artist Glenn Ligon. Widely renowned for his experimental approach to painting, Whitten often turned to writing as away to investigate, understand, and grapple with his practice and his milieu. Taking its title from the heading that Whitten scrawled across many of his texts-a term borrowed from the world of jazz that means "to practice in private"- Notes from the Woodshed is a fascinating, intimate insight into an artist at work.
Text byWhitten, Jack
