Charles Seliger

by O'Connor, Francis V.; Lader, Melvin P.; Messer, Thomas M.

• ISBN13: 9781555952327
• ISBN10: 1555952321
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-14
• Publisher: Hudson Hills

Summary

This lavish illustrated volume presents a visual history of Seliger's commitment to biomorphic abstraction and documents his extraordinary career from his auspicious beginnings as the youngest artist exhibiting with the original artisit of the Abstract Expressionist movement, through the development of his signature style of complex and intimate abstractions.

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(1)
Thomas M. Messer
Introduction The Paintings of Charles Seliger: Nature and Vision	8	(19)
Melvin P. Lader
Chronology Charles Seliger: Redefining Abstract Expressionism	27	(1)
Francis V. O'Connor
Foreword	28	(3)
Juvenilia---1926 to 1939	31	(1)
Early Experiments---1940 to 1942	32	(2)
Abstract & Surrealist Influences---1943 to 1945	34	(6)
Abstracting the Natural World---1946 to 1948	40	(3)
Insects---1949 to 1950	43	(2)
Developing Automatic Techniques---1951 to 1959	45	(7)
Modern Science & New Technology---1960 to 1969	52	(7)
Kinetics---1970 to 1971	59	(2)
Gessoed Canvas & Monotypes---1972 to 1980	61	(7)
Return to Stretched Canvas---1981 to 1989	68	(6)
Masonite, The Retrieval Process & The Current Working Method---1990 to 2002	74	(7)
Afterword	81	(10)
Paintings A Survey: 1944--2001	91	(99)
List of Illustrations	190	(6)
Selected Museum Collections	196	(1)
Exhibition History	197	(7)
Bibliography	204	(2)
Index	206	(9)
Acknowledgments	215