Helen Frankenthaler: Selected Paintings

This definitive examination of Helen Frankenthaler’s six-decade career offers unprecedented insight into the artist’s revolutionary contribution to postwar American painting. Through careful analysis of twenty pivotal canvases that chart her progression, from early engagements with Abstract Expressionism to the development of her signature staining technique, the publication illuminates how her innovative approach to medium transcended the psychological introspection characteristic of her Abstract Expressionist contemporaries. She synthesized modernist formal concerns with metaphysical investigations of the natural world while simultaneously maintaining productive dialogue with art historical precedent—an unusual and remarkable achievement that transformed twentieth-century artistic discourse.

Published by Yares Art, New York, 2019

Essay by Alexander Nemerov

Designed by Tim Laun and Natalie Wedeking

Edited by SNAP Editions

Fully illustrated, 66 pages

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