Jack Whitten: Notes from the Woodshed
$52.07
- Paperback
592 pages
- Release Date
18 May 2025
Summary
A new, fully transcribed edition of the celebrated collection of Jack Whitten’s wide-ranging, perceptive writings
When it was originally published in 2018, Notes from the Woodshed marked the first time that a book had been devoted to the writings of pioneering American artist Jack Whitten. Edited by art historian Katy Siegel, this new edition of the celebrated publication now presents a fully transcribed collection of Whitten’s insightful, searching writings,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783907493113 |
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| ISBN-10: | 3907493117 |
| Author: | Katy Siegel, Jack Whitten, Glenn Ligon, Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, Zoé Whitley |
| Publisher: | Hauser & Wirth |
| Imprint: | Hauser & Wirth |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 592 |
| Release Date: | 18 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 1.20kg |
| Dimensions: | 53mm x 166mm x 241mm |
Critics Review
This is a delightful book that brings together 55 years of late artist Jack Whitten’s studio journal, featuring jotted-down notes, observations, idioms, sketches, and other oddities that chart the curious mind of the artist on every page.–Hrag Vartanian “Hyperallergic”
Katy Siegel
Jack Whitten (1939-2018) was born in Bessemer, Alabama, and studied art at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he became involved in civil rights demonstrations. From 1960 to 1964 he studied art at Cooper Union, New York, falling in with the abstract expressionists of the day (Willem de Kooning was a particular influence and mentor). The Whitney mounted a solo exhibition of his paintings in 1974; in 1983 the Studio Museum in Harlem held a 10-year retrospective. In 2014, a retrospective exhibition was organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, traveling to the Wexner Center for the Arts in 2015 and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 2015 and 2016. Whitten lived in Queens, New York, where he died on January 20, 2018.
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