Frank Stella: Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné

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Along with his achievements in abstract painting and sculpture, Frank Stella has also made major contributions to the history of the brand new print. An exploration of the artist’s innovative use of the medium, Frank Stella: Prints reveals the intimate relationships between Stella’s prints and his works in other mediums, demonstrating how Stella blasted a hole within the traditional tools and aesthetics of printmaking with works of compelling complexity and beauty.
Frank Stella: Prints registers in chronological sequence more than 300 editioned prints, reproduced in full color, including works in series and portfolios. Related works in other mediums–paintings, metal reliefs, maquettes and sculpture–are also illustrated for comparison. Complete documentation of every print offers a privileged insight into the creative process at the back of these artworks. An introductory essay, prefaces to every series and comments on individual prints provide background information, analysis and interpretation. Frank Stella: Prints also features an illustrated chronology, a word list tailored to Stella’s practice, a bibliography and an index.
Soon after arriving in New York within the late 1950s, Frank Stella (born 1936) came to prominence together with his striped Black Paintings and shaped canvases. His early painting project reduced the medium to its most fundamental elements and introduced a key concept of Minimalism at an early date: “What you see is what you see.” But it surely used to be not long before Stella, a restlessly experimental worker, abandoned austerity for brighter colors, irregular shapes, rougher textures and gestural brushstrokes.

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