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Ad Reinhardt was one of the most significant American artists of
the twentieth century. His singular career bridges the history of modern
abstraction with minimal and conceptual practices and continues to
resonate today. From his varied work of the 1930s through the early 1950s,
to the rigorously systematic and subtly chromatic “black” canvases that
would preoccupy him from 1955 until his death, Reinhardt’s paintings,
prolific writings, extensive slides, and published cartoons encompass
a multifaceted practice that encourages the viewer’s active, perceptual
engagement in the act of looking at and experiencing art, thereby
influencing successive generations of artists with continued relevance.
“To him abstraction was not a genre or style,” The New York Times art
critic Holland Cotter writes of him, “it was an ethos.”
This catalogue — the first comprehensive overview of Reinhardt’s
career in over twenty years — reproduces thirteen of his signature
“black” paintings — 60 × 60 inch canvases from the 1960s, which he
considered to be his “ultimate” aesthetic expression and “the last paint-
ings that anyone can paint.” In addition, there are reproductions of
Reinhardt’s original and published cartoons he completed for various
publications, humorously commenting on contemporary social,
political, and cultural concerns. The cartoons are accompanied by
a selection from Reinhardt’s extensive collection of 12,000 slides taken
during his ambitious travels around the world. Reinhardt often pre-
sented them in slide shows at the Artists Club in New York, his studio or
loft, or at various museums and schools across the country during events
he termed “non-happenings.” Published to document the critically
lauded exhibition at David Zwirner in New York in 2013, the catalogue
includes new scholarship by curator Robert Storr, in addition to an
extensive chronology of the artist’s life and career.
Ad Reinhardt
David Zwirner Books
Forthcoming in October 2015
Hardcover, 9
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225 pages, 200 color
ISBN 9780989980999
$75 US & Canada | £45 | €55
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Text by Robert Storr. Additional contributions
by Alex Bacon, Kara Carmack, and
Prudence Peiffer
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Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) was born in Buffalo,
New York. After graduating from Columbia
University in 1935, Reinhardt studied at the
American Artists School and the National
Academy of Design, worked on the WPA’s easel
division, and became a member of the American
Abstract Artists group. In 1943, the same year
the newspaper PM hired Reinhardt as its staff
artist, he began graduate studies in art history at
New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts.
In addition to his commercial work, he taught
art and art history at Brooklyn College, Hunter
College, California School of Fine Arts, University
of Wyoming, and Yale University. In 1946, he
joined Betty Parsons Gallery, which presented
twelve solo exhibitions over the course of his
career. Reinhardt’s work was included in impor-
tant museum exhibitions during his lifetime,
including Abstract and Surrealist Art in the United
States, Cincinnati Art Museum (1944); The New
Decade: 35 American Painters and Sculptors,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
(1955); Americans 1963 and The Responsive Eye, The
Museum of Modern Art, New York (1963; 1965);
and Painting and Sculpture of a Decade: 1954–64,
Tate Gallery, London (1964); among others.
The Jewish Museum mounted Reinhardt’s first
major retrospective in 1966, and The Museum
of Modern Art, New York organized a retrospec-
tive in 1991 that traveled to the Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. More recent
exhibitions have taken place at the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, New York (2008); Josef
Albers Museum, Bottrop (2010); Kröller-Müller
Museum, Otterlo (2011); and the Institute
of Contemporary Arts, London (2011). Malmö
Konsthall, Sweden, will highlight Reinhardt’s
commercial work in the summer of 2015.
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Robert Storr is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation
Dean of the Yale School of Art. He was formerly
Senior Curator in the Department of Painting and
Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New
York from 1990 to 2002. In 2002, he was named
the first Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at
the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
He has also taught at the CUNY Graduate
Center, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Rhode
Island School of Design, Tyler School of Art,
New York Studio School, and Harvard University,
and has been a frequent lecturer in the United
States and abroad. From 2005 to 2007, he was
Director of Visual Art for the Venice Biennale, the
first American invited to assume that position.
The exhibition he organized at David Zwirner in
the fall of 2013 to celebrate the centenary of Ad
Reinhardt was voted “Best Show in a Commercial
Space in New York” by the US Art Critics
Association.
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