Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Sculpture (Phillips Collection)
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Rating | : | 4.98 (754 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0300181221 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2017-09-05 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Per Kirkeby at The Phillips Collection" according to Kenneth Hughes. This is the volume that accompanies the current exhibition at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. (October 2012 to January 201Per Kirkeby at The Phillips Collection This is the volume that accompanies the current exhibition at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. (October 2012 to January 2013), which will subsequently travel to the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (March to June, 2013). Although for a couple of decades the Danish artist Per Kirkeby (b. 1938) has been a familiar presence at European exhibitions of contemporary art, he has been far less known and far less shown in this country. One can only hope that this exhibition, which is the largest and most comprehens. ), which will subsequently travel to the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (March to June, 201Per Kirkeby at The Phillips Collection This is the volume that accompanies the current exhibition at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. (October 2012 to January 2013), which will subsequently travel to the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (March to June, 2013). Although for a couple of decades the Danish artist Per Kirkeby (b. 1938) has been a familiar presence at European exhibitions of contemporary art, he has been far less known and far less shown in this country. One can only hope that this exhibition, which is the largest and most comprehens. ). Although for a couple of decades the Danish artist Per Kirkeby (b. 19Per Kirkeby at The Phillips Collection This is the volume that accompanies the current exhibition at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. (October 2012 to January 2013), which will subsequently travel to the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (March to June, 2013). Although for a couple of decades the Danish artist Per Kirkeby (b. 1938) has been a familiar presence at European exhibitions of contemporary art, he has been far less known and far less shown in this country. One can only hope that this exhibition, which is the largest and most comprehens. 8) has been a familiar presence at European exhibitions of contemporary art, he has been far less known and far less shown in this country. One can only hope that this exhibition, which is the largest and most comprehens. Five Stars Fascinating
His early training as a geologist is evident in his richly layered canvases, which are structured like geological strata, constantly in flux, expressing movement and change over time. 1938) is Scandinavia's most highly acclaimed artist since August Strindberg and Asger Jorn. Per Kirkeby (b. Klaus Ottmann provides an overview of Kirkeby's career, from his early association with Minimalism and the Fluxus movement in the 1960s to his recent work, which marries the poetic and metaphysical to the scientific investigation of object matter. His striking bronze sculp
“This well-wrought introduction to the Danish painter and sculptor affords sound passage into Kirkeby’s stirring but often oblique world.”—Publishers Weekly