• Richard Pousette-Dart. The cover is grey with a photograph of the artist in his studio. The font is white.
  • The book is open to two pages. There is a photograph of the artists painting that spans both pages.
  • The book is open to two pages. There is a black and white photograph on each page.
  • The book is open to two pages. A black and white photo of the artists materials is in the middle of the pages and there&
  • Richard Pousette-Dart. The cover is grey with a photograph of the artist in his studio. The font is white.
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Richard Pousette-Dart: 1950s Spirit and Substance

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Published on the occasion of the landmark exhibition curated by Joanna Pousette-Dart, Richard Pousette-Dart: 1950s Spirit and Substance examines the many through-lines than run through the artist’s multivalent output.

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Over the course of his career, Richard Pousette-Dart sought to express universal significance through a lexicon of biomorphic and totemic forms that provided rich visual and symbolic sources, forging his own path into abstraction. In the 1950s, when he moved his studio away from New York City, his visual language developed cadences of the Gothic and Byzantine, with many of his paintings rendered in white.

Richly illustrated with a conversation between Joanna Pousette-Dart and Lowery Stokes Sims, this volume provides a detailed look at the artist's work from that decade, spanning painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography. Extensive archival material—images of Pousette-Dart in his studio, newspaper clippings, notebook pages, announcements, and more—along with a detailed chronology immerse the reader in the artist's world, illuminating his diverse influences and prolific practice. Reproduced in full for the first time is his "Talk Given at the Boston Museum School" from 1951.
Publication details

Contributors: Richard Pousette-Dart. Interview with Joanna Pousette-Dart, Lowery Stokes Sims.
Publishers: Pace Publishing
Publication date: 2023
Hardcover
11 ½ × 9 ½ inches
186 pages: 197 color images
ISBN: 9781948701600
Richard Pousette-Dart. The cover is grey with a photograph of the artist in his studio. The font is white.
The book is open to two pages. There is a photograph of the artists painting that spans both pages.
The book is open to two pages. There is a black and white photograph on each page.
The book is open to two pages. A black and white photo of the artists materials is in the middle of the pages and there&
Richard Pousette-Dart. The cover is grey with a photograph of the artist in his studio. The font is white.

Richard Pousette-Dart

Richard Pousette-Dart was the youngest artist of the New York School’s first generation of Abstract Expressionists.
During his career, Pousette-Dart created a lexicon of biomorphic and totemic forms that provided rich visual and symbolic sources that he would explore throughout his long career in a multitude of painterly approaches. He is recognized for his painting, drawing, photography, and sculpture, which are unified by his expressive use of gesture, form, and color. Never embracing action painting and instead pursuing his own aesthetic, Pousette-Dart sought universal significance in his art, expressed through nonobjective means.

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