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Joe Zucker

Hardback

Main Details

Title Joe Zucker
Authors and Contributors      By (author) John Elderfield
By (author) Alex Bacon
By (author) Terry R. Myers
By (author) Phong Bui
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 255,Width 305
Category/GenreIndividual artists and art monographs
ISBN/Barcode 9780500239650
ClassificationsDewey:709.2
Audience
General
Illustrations 250 Illustrations, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publication Date 9 January 2020
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Joe Zucker has flown under the radar of larger public awareness due to the frequent transformations in his art from one style to another, and thus his work has not been easily characterized and identified. Nevertheless, he has forged a powerful artistic persona as a process artist with a certain pop inflection, who not only grapples with formal and theoretical concerns but also explores themes of history, culture and Americana. This career-spanning survey deals with all of Joe Zucker's various bodies of work, from his grid paintings of the 1960s to his latest pieces, including the monumental 1000 Brushstrokes (2015-1016). Zucker's art is rooted in a conceptual framework where tools, materials, processes, procedures, content and subject matter are all interrelated.Working with materials ranging from cotton balls, sash cord, peg board and squeegees to acrylic and rhoplex, and exploring such themes as the grid, the history of cotton, ancient civilizations, an assortment of 'dubious characters', paintings that paint themselves, as well as meditations on the studio, Zucker merges materials, process and content - abstract and otherwise - to produce compelling works of extraordinary inventiveness, irony and passion.

Author Biography

John Elderfield is Chief Curator Emeritus of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Allen R. Adler, Class of 1967, Distinguished Curator and Lecturer at the Princeton University Art Museum; and a consultant at Gagosian Gallery. Alex Bacon is a scholar, writer and curator, who is currently finishing his PhD in art history at Princeton University. Terry R. Myers is Professor of Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Phong Bui is an artist, writer, independent curator, and co-founder, editor in chief, and publisher of The Brooklyn Rail.