Sherrie Levine: After Reinhardt

Name: Sherrie Levine: After Reinhardt
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SKU: 9781644230091
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Sherrie Levine: After Reinhardt explores the American artist's appropriation of Ad Reinhardt's Blue Paintings, transforming his 28 works into abstract, truly monochromatic blue pieces using pixelation. This investigation into colour stripped of representational function builds on Levine's previous techniques and accompanies her 2019 solo exhibition at David Zwirner, New York. The publication includes full colour reproductions and Reinhardt's 1965 self-interview "Reinhardt Paints a Picture."
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Essential for contemporary art enthusiasts, scholars of appropriation art, and collectors interested in postmodern reinterpretations of Western art history.

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The renowned American artist Sherrie Levine engages her ongoing practice of appropriating artworks from the Western art historical canon—this time taking Ad Reinhardt's Blue Paintings as a point of departure.

Monochromes After Reinhardt: 1-28 (2018) continues the artist's ongoing investigation of colour separated from its representational function. Inspired by the exhibition Ad Reinhardt: Blue Paintings held at David Zwirner, New York in 2017, Levine has created abstract restatements of the 28 works that were on view, making use of pixelation to consolidate the range of blue tones in each painting into a single, truly monochromatic value.

This work revisits a technique first employed by Levine in her 1989 group of woodcut prints Meltdown, where an averaging algorithm was used to create a checkerboard composition based on modernist artists' iconic paintings.

Sherrie Levine: After Reinhardt is published on the occasion of Levine's eponymous solo exhibition at David Zwirner's Upper East Side location in New York in 2019. The publication features full-colour reproductions of Monochromes After Reinhardt: 1-28 and includes the 1965 text "Reinhardt Paints a Picture," in which Reinhardt famously interviewed himself.

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"Inspired by the exhibition Ad Reinhardt: Blue Paintings, Levine has created abstract restatements of the twenty-eight works that were on view, making use of pixelation to consolidate the range of blue tones in each painting into a single, truly monochromatic value." – Tique

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781644230091

Publisher: David Zwirner

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 August 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: David Zwirner

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 273.0mm

Weight: 440g

Pages: 76

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Ad Reinhardt Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Sherrie Levine's (b. 1947) work engages many of the core tenets of postmodern art, incisively challenging notions of originality, authenticity, and identity. Since the late 1970s, she has created a singular and complex oeuvre using a variety of media, including photography, painting, and sculpture. Many of her works are explicitly appropriated from artworks within the modernist canon, while others are more general in their references, assimilating art historical interests and concerns rather than specific objects. Some of Levine's earliest work was included in Pictures, an important exhibition at Artists Space in New York in 1977 curated by Douglas Crimp that came to define The Pictures Generation-a group of artists examining the structures of signification underlying any image. Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967) is among the most significant American artists of the twentieth century. His paintings encourage the viewer's active engagement in the act of looking at and experiencing "art as art." As he declared, "Art is art. Everything else is everything else.