Résumé du livre
Published following the exhibition 'Al Held: The Sixties' at White Cube Bermondsey, London (2021-22), this major monograph is dedicated to Held, one of the great post-war American artists, and provides a major survey of the artist's works from the late-1950s to the 2000s. Beginning with his early, paint-laden 'Pigment' works, and progressing into the iconic acrylic 'Alphabet' and the geometric 'Black and White' series, the book culminates with Held's monumental late canvases of dynamic, interlocking planes. The monograph features: Held's 1982 interview with renown American critic, art historian and close friend Irving Sandler, which reflects upon the artist's fifty-year career; a highly insightful and personal account of the artist as teacher by Held's former student, Michael Craig-Martin; new scholarship by Robert Storr on Held's status as one of the foremost American artists of the 20th century; and finally, a contribution by Daniel Belasco, whose unrivalled knowledge of the artist's working practice illuminates the methodologies Held developed over the decades.