Jack Whitten Jack Whitten: The Greek Alphabet Series (Hardback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Jack Whitten: The Greek Alphabet SeriesCondition: NewFormat: HardbackEAN: 9780944521991ISBN: 9780944521991Publisher: Dia Art Foundation,U.S.Release Date: 06/22/2023Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 262mmItem Length: 234mmContributor: Deirdre O'Dwyer (Edited by), Courtney J Martin (Text by), Gregg Bordowitz (Text by), Matilde Guidelli-Guidi (Edited by), Jessica Morgan (Foreword by), Fred Moten (Text by), Donna De Salvo (Edited by), Jack Whitten (By (artist))Genre: Arts & PhotographyISBN-10: 0944521991Description: On Whitten’s pioneering 1970s series marking his move away from gestural paintingThe first publication to delve deeply into Jack Whitten’s Greek Alphabet paintings (1975–78), this volume examines this remarkable series, which consists of variations on abstract, black-and-white compositions and experiments in mark-making. For these works, Whitten employed handmade tools and techniques including the comb, imprint and frottage.The series is illuminated through essays by art historian Courtney J. Martin and Dia curators Donna De Salvo and Matilde Guidelli-Guidi. Authors Fred Moten and Gregg Bordowitz provide poetic reflections on Whitten’s art, biography and cultural importance. Materials from Whitten’s archives, including his own personal writings, supplement this unprecedented publication.In his lifetime, Whitten never had the opportunity to exhibit more than a handful of these works. In publishing a significant number of these paintings together for the first time—with 40 color plates representing the 60-some paintings in the series—Jack Whitten: The Greek Alphabet Series makes possible a fuller appreciation of the formal and material permutations of Whitten’s practice.Jack Whitten (1939–2018) was born in Bessemer, Alabama, studied art at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and moved to New York in 1960, where he had a solo exhibition at the Whitney in 1974 and a 10-year retrospective at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1983. In 2014, a retrospective was organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, traveling to the Wexner Center in 2015 and the Walker Art Center in 2015–16. Whitten lived in Queens, New York, where he died in 2018.Topic: Society & Culture, Social SciencesAuthor: Jack WhittenRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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