Baier, Simon. Piet Mondrian, Barnett Newman, Dan Flavin

Cl. Hatje Cantz. 2014

Book ID: 96169

Although the three prominent modernist artists Piet Mondrian (1872 1944), Barnett Newman (1905 1970), and Dan Flavin (1933 1996) each belong to a different generation, all of them have devoted their creativity to abstract art in groundbreaking ways. Under various intellectual and social auspices they relied upon ascetics in their unheard-of radical dealings with art. Using pure color, concrete form, and new materials, they expanded the dimensions of art into the universal. This volume appears in conjunction with a large, special exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel, and features each of the three artists in chronological order, so that the sequencing gives rise to enlightening nexuses. The book presents masterpieces, while juxtaposing seldom-seen works.

152 pp.