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Paul GrahamPaintings

Photographs: Paul Graham

Text: Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and Adolph Gottlieb

Publisher: Anthony Reynolds Gallery

Pictures: 14

Year: 2000

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Catalogue of color photographs of details of graffiti found on bathroom walls.

With a text of a 1943 letter from Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and Adolph Gottlieb to the New York Times illuminating their philosophy of art. Behind this surface subject however, is a second layer – a meditation on the relationship between painting and photography. Viewed from a distance these seemingly abstract images recall the post-war American painting of Rothko, Newman, Ryman, Rauschenberg or Twombly. As viewers, we expect the subtleties of color, light, and surface markings to be those of painted canvases.

Pink linen hardcover, 245 x 170 mm. In great condition.
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