Robert Mangold

by Danto, Arthur C; Mangold, Robert; Plimack Mangold, Sylvia

• ISBN13: 9780714838199
• ISBN10: 0714838195
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-10
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

Robert Mangold is a pre-eminent figure in post-war painting. His large, gently curving paintings are among the most majestically beautiful abstract works of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In contrast to the sober austerity of his Minimalist peers, with whom he is often associated, Mangold uses unusual, subtle colours and soft, hand-drawn geometries, endowing his large-scale paintings with a unique sensibility and presence.This is the first major monograph on one of most significant contemporary painters working today and is a timely retrospective on his work, made in close association with the artist himself. Mangold's work is celebrated in this important book by some of contemporary art's most prestigious writers.

Author Biography

Richard Shiff is an art historian and the Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art and Director of the Center for the Study of Modernism at the University of Texas at Austin.

Robert Storr is Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, formerly Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Arthur C Danto is Johnsonian Professor Emetrius of Philosophy at Columbia University, New York, and the art critic for The Nation.

Nancy Princenthal is a noted American art critic whose writings have appeared in Art in America, Parkett and Artforum, among other journals.

Sylvia Plimack Mangold is a painter and has been married to Robert Mangold since 1961.

Table of Contents

Autonomy, Actuality, Mangold	7	(52)
Richard Shiff
Interview with Sylvia Plimack Mangold	59	(12)
Betwixt and Between	71	(46)
Robert Storr
The Attic Series, Studies on Paper	117	(20)
The Zone Paintings	137	(22)
Arthur C. Danto
Artist's Statements	159	(10)
A Survey of the Paintings	169	(112)
Nancy Princenthal
Footnotes	281	(12)
Chronology / Bibliography	293	(37)
Index	330