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Frankenthaler’s monumental canvases: where the moment becomes distance.

Helen Frankenthaler

The Moment and the Distance

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  • Hardcover

    88 pages

  • Release Date

    28 July 2026

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Summary

Helen Frankenthaler: The Moment and the Distance documents an exhibition of the artist’s large-scale paintings made between 1960 and 1992.

Throughout her career, Frankenthaler pushed beyond the boundaries of easel painting to create extraordinary, monumental works, some of which occupied the entire expanse of her studio floor. This exhibition explores the artist’s use of scale across four decades of painting. The title is derived from a 1975 review by poet and critic Barbara Guest, wh…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781968417031
ISBN-10:1968417036
Author:Ara H. Merjian
Publisher:Gagosian Gallery
Imprint:Gagosian Gallery
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:88
Release Date:28 July 2026
Weight:1.16kg
Dimensions:17mm x 324mm x 279mm
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Helen Frankenthaler by Ara H. Merjian - ISBN: 9781968417031
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About The Author

Ara H. Merjian

Ara H. Merjian is an art historian and professor of Italian Studies at New York University. He is an affiliate of the Institute of Fine Arts and the Departments of Art History, Comparative Literature, and the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies.

He has written and edited several books, including:

  • Fragments of Totality: Futurism, Fascism, and the Sculptural Avant-Garde (2024)
  • Heretical Aesthetics: Pasolini on Painting (2023)
  • Against the Avant-Garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art and Neocapitalism, 1960-75 (2020)
  • Blueprints and Ruins: Giorgio de Chirico and the Architectural Imagination from the Avant-Garde to Postmodernism (forthcoming 2027)
  • Beat, Black, Queer: Pasolini’s Other America (due out with Verso in 2026)

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