Selections from the Journals of Myron Stout
  • reference book
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 22.9 x 15.4 cm.
  • 352 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 1877675520

Selections from the Journals of Myron Stout

[Paperback Edition]

Myron Stout, Robert Storr, Tina Dickey

Selections from the Journals of Myron Stout

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Compendium of journals of Myron Stout edited by Tina Dickey, with introduction by Robert Storr. "The Journals are the most articulate writings recorded by an artist since those of Delacroix. They reflect an artist's evolution and reflect aspects of the inner worlds of all artists: investigations into philosophy, politics, literature, the interrelationships of art forms; the history of aesthetics; the visual expression of balance, torque and tension; the relationship of abstract art to the natural world. The Journals appear here in their most complete form to date. . . the first entries date from 1950, three years after he enrolled in the art school run by Hans Hofmann, whose teaching so profoundly affected Stout's thinking and practice. . . . He used his writings to define his aesthetic ideas. The last entries are from 1966, by which time all the fundamental elements of the artist's approach had come sharply into focus, and many of his most important works were behind him. Hilton Kramer in a recent review said this 'is a book that every art student should read [and that many artists would profit from reading. . . . the surprise is not so much biographical] Stout has long been known to have lived a solitary life [as it is intellectual] the revelation that he devoted such close critical attention to the work of his contemporaries, keeping a detailed written record of his responses to their accomplishments and what he regarded as their failures. In one respect, the Journals resemble his paintings: 'they are at their best when they are most concrete.' Myron Stout (1908-1987) studied intermittently with Hans Hofmann for several years in New York and Provincetown and was mentored and befriended by him. He started exhibiting in the early 1950s at the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement pursuing his own style of small scale, geometric, purist (although deeply colored), unemotional paintings, following in the tradition of Mondrian and Hofmann. By 1954 his focus changed to black and white abstract iconic shapes which established his place in American art. He had a retrospective in 1980 at the Whitney Museum of American Art and his works have been widely exhibited in the U.S. and Europe since. The book is filled with color plates and black and white reproductions and photographs of his contemporaries." -- publisher's statement.

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