Jack Whitten: The Greek Alphabet Series
Jack Whitten: The Greek Alphabet Series On Whitten's pioneering 1970s series marking his move away from gestural paintingThe first publication to delve deeply into Jack Whitten's Greek Alphabet…
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Jack Whitten: The Greek Alphabet Series
On Whitten's pioneering 1970s series marking his move away from gestural paintingThe first publication to delve deeply into Jack Whitten's Greek Alphabet paintings (1975-78), this volume examines this remarkable series, which consists of variations on abstract, black-and-white compositions and experiments in mark-making. Martin and Dia curators Donna De Salvo and Matilde Guidelli-Guidi. For these works, Whitten employed handmade tools and techniques including the comb, imprint and frottage.The series is illuminated through essays by art historian Courtney J.
Materials from Whitten's archives, including his own personal writings, supplement this unprecedented publication.In his lifetime, Whitten never had the opportunity to Authors Fred Moten and Gregg Bordowitz provide poetic reflections on Whitten's art, biography and cultural importance.
For the Wolf Whitten Hannah
The Greek Revolution
The Alphabets Alphabet
Eating the Alphabet
The Alphabet Book
The Illuminated Alphabet
The Greek Holiday