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Friedrich Kuhn (1926-1972): The Painter as Outlaw

Hardback

Main Details

Title Friedrich Kuhn (1926-1972): The Painter as Outlaw
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Bice Curiger
By (author) Caroline Kesser
By (author) Louis Jent
Edited by Bice Curiger
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:168
Dimensions(mm): Height 280,Width 212
Category/GenreArt and design styles - Pop art
Painting and paintings
Individual artists and art monographs
ISBN/Barcode 9783858812452
ClassificationsDewey:759.94
Audience
General
Illustrations 125 col, 70 b/w

Publishing Details

Publisher Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag
Imprint Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag
Publication Date 1 January 2009
Publication Country Switzerland

Description

Friedrich Kuhn (1926-1972) is the leading figure in the Zurich movement of the 1950s and 1960s, a counter-balance to the era's dominant abstract/concrete style. Kuhn's eccentric work expresses his will to single-handedly create a style of painting, at once finely tuned and anarchic, between figuration and abstraction and laced with idiosyncratic references to modern mass culture. Admired and often mythologised, Kuhn's paintings have to date been viewed in conjunction with the artist's hyperbolised status as a living legend. This book offers a chance to evaluate the artistic significance of a maverick painter, whose abundant non-academic oeuvre prefigured the trends that shape Swiss art to this day, and provided a bridge to the international art world. Edited by the renowned curator and critic Bice Curiger and richly illustrated, it contains many previously unpublished works by Kuhn and new essays, investigating Kuhn's life and work and explaining the myths surrounding this notorious pop-artist avant la lettre.

Author Biography

Bice Curiger is an internationally renowned curator at the Kunsthaus Zurich, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the art journal Parkett and editorial director of the Tate Gallery's magazine Tate etc.