The Paradoxes of Robert Ryman
  • critical theory
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • black-and-white
  • 20.5 x 15.2 cm.
  • 59 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 9781934029039

The Paradoxes of Robert Ryman

Robert Ryman, Jean Frémon

The Paradoxes of Robert Ryman

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"'The Absolute Paradox' [Le paradoxe absolu] was written in 1990. Robert Ryman's cited remarks were noted in the course of many visits to his studio in 1989 and 1990. They were spoken in English but immediately transcribed in French and then retranslated into English for this book, and thus may differ slightly from the original. 'This Is Not a White Square' [Ceci n'est pas un carré blanc] consists of a preface to a catalog for a 1984 exhibition of Robert Ryman's paintings at Galerie Lelong, Paris. The two texts have been joined under the title 'Robert Ryman, le paradoxe absolu' [Robert Ryman: The Absolute Paradox], published in French by L'Echoppe (Paris, 1991). These texts were republished together with 'Codicille sur la blancheur' [Codicil on Whitness], 'Post scriptum' [Post Scriptum]] and 'De l'usage des guillemets et parentheses' [On the Usage of Quotation Marks and Parentheses] as 'Les Paradoxes de Robert Ryman' in Jean Frémon, 'Gloire des Formes' (P.O.L. 2005). The final essay 'Leibniz et le Perroquet' [Leibniz and the Parrot] is a revised fragment from 'Samuel Beckett dans les petits souliers de James Joyce,' published by the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2007) on the occasion of Samuel Beckett's centennial." -- from book's foreword.

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