Kenneth Noland: Context is the Key, Paintings: 1958–1970

This examination of Kenneth Noland's seminal period from 1958–1970, published to accompany Yares Art's survey of the artist's oeuvre, excavates the significance of chromatic relationships within postwar American abstraction. The volume's meticulous analysis of more than thirty canonical works demonstrates how Noland's radical formal vocabulary synthesized the painterly exuberance of Abstract Expressionism with the reductive clarity of emergent Minimalist strategies. This publication situates Noland's uncompromising dedication to color as the primary vehicle of pictorial meaning. It also illuminates how his diverse formal investigations functioned as sophisticated interrogations of painting's fundamental parameters.

Published by Yares Art, New York, 2021

Essay and chronology by Alex Grimley

Designed by Tim Laun and Natalie Wedeking

Softcover, fully illustrated, 107 pages

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