Elemental Form (Rare edition)

Robert Storr

Softcover | 21.7 x 2.1 x 26.7 cm | 112 pp

L&M Arts | 2006 | 9780974424996

Elemental Form features the work of twenty-two artists artists that were reconsidering the basic questions of painting and sculpture in the 19060s an 1970s. In starting anew, they gave value to the primary forms and processes of art making.

When the Elemental Forms assembled here were first seen they signalled something far different from the way we see them today. These works displayed an austere resistance to the complexities of Abstract Expressionism. The shocking reversal from the rigour and aggressive coloration of the AbEx work that came before, replaced now by a seemingly cool aloofness, made it difficult for people to engage this new sensibility. However, decades on, this rational and sometimes spare style has become as significant and beautiful as the Expressionism it once so passionately rejected.

The catalogue features an insightful essay, Sufficiency, by curator and critic Robert Storr.

Artists
Carl Andre
Jo Baer
Larry Bell
Mel Bochner
James Lee Byars
Dan Flavin
Eva Hesse
Robert Irwin
Donald Judd
Sol LeWitt
Robert Mangold
Piero Manzoni
Brice Marden
Agnes Martin
John McCracken
Olivier Mosset
Barnet Newman
Robert Ryman
Fred Sandback
Richard Serra
Tony Smith
Frank Stella