Ellsworth Kelly: The Early Drawings, 1948-1955

Bois, Yve-Alain

During his expatriate years in France (1948-54), Ellsworth Kelly developed his visual strategies. His French drawings are presented here with commentary. In drawing, Kelly evolved four strategies for making art: transfer, chance, modular grid and monochrome panel. His goal was to develop an alternative to traditional composition. This bilingual German/English catalogue presents an intimate view of the process of artistic conception.

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An essential scholarly monograph by Yve-Alain Bois examining Ellsworth Kelly’s formative post-war Paris years and the emergence of his radical hard-edge abstraction.

EAN

9781891771071

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

1 May 1999

Pages

264

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