Hans Hofmann A Retrospective Hardcover Fine Art Artist Naples Museum of Art
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Hans Hofmann: A Retrospective Hardcover – December 15, 2003
Publisher : George Braziller Inc.; First Edition (December 15, 2003)
Language : English
Hardcover : 143 pages
Dimensions : 9.5 x 0.8 x 10.3 inches
Publisher : George Braziller Inc.; First Edition (December 15, 2003)
Pre-loved; Binding Strong, Clean pages except it is dated on front page - see photo
The painter Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) is one of the most important figures in post-war American art. In his lifetime, he came to be admired for his exuberant, color-filled canvases, but it was as an influential teacher, first in his native Germany, later in New York and Provincetown, that he was most renowned. Today, he is celebrated a giant of twentieth-century abstraction, and his pivotal role, along with Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Arshile Gorky, in the development of Abstract Expressionism is widely acknowledged. Published to accompany a retrospective of the artist's work at the Naples Museum of Art, Florida, Hans Hofmann examines the full range of his achievement and influence as both artist and theorist. As a painter, Hofmann was distinguished by his ability to create expressive drama and evocative space with contrasts of intense color, richly modulated surfaces, and a vocabulary of shapes ranging from the geometric to the calligraphic. As a teacher, he brought to America first-hand knowledge of the work of such European modernists as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, who he met as a you
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