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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 709 EAN: 9783865211637 ISBN: 3865211631 Label: Steidl/Matthew Marks Gallery Manufacturer: Steidl/Matthew Marks Gallery Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 88 Publication Date: September 15, 2005 Publisher: Steidl/Matthew Marks Gallery Release Date: September 15, 2005 Studio: Steidl/Matthew Marks Gallery Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: This volume provides a rare glimpse into the most intimate works of the internationally acclaimed artist Brice Marden. Twenty years ago, Marden produced a series of small and virtually unknown paintings on the Greek island of Hydra, which the artist first visited in 1971. Inspired by the island's ancient marble quarries, Marden created these private paintings in oil on marble fragments as tokens for friends and family. Between 1981 and 1987, the artist made a total of 32 paintings on marble, gathered together here for the first time in a single volume. The period coincided with changes in his publicly exhibited paintings. In 1987, the date of his last painting on marble, Marden presented the first public exhibition of his calligraphic paintings, as opposed to his earlier monochrome work. An essay by Lisa Liebmann here helps to contextualize that shift: According to the artist, the diagonal in the marble fragments helped serve as a stepping stone from rectilinear to more organic form. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Small masterpiecesThis is both informative and enlightening. Small in format, but large in concept. These small works are certainkly a percussor to Marden's latest work. I do highly recommend this book to any who are student of Marden's output, as they do show that constant search for new ways of looking and working out one's ideas. Marden's has produce both very large works and small ones - this book stands by and supports the saying 'that small is beautiful', and that works do not have to be large to be good. Read More Rating: - Intimate FragmentsThe recent release of "Brice Marden: Paintings on Marble" reveals subtle and luminous balancing acts of this American master. Marden paints on marble fragments discarded from the construction of a bench on the Greek island of Hydra. Every stroke, angle, and delicate application of color demonstrates a commanding decision within classical bounds. Three of these fragments were shown in Marden's recent MoMA show, and can be thought of as a kind of sculptural sketchbook. The paintings are beautifully reproduced, ... Read More Rating:  - more emporers new clothesbrice marden is another example of the emporers new clothes--- as an artist which some call him--hes a sham--- and if not a sham -his work reveals such paltry talent such a limited imagination-- i can only say its a sign of the times that someone of such limited ability is respected and collected and shown-- his scribbly lines of late bear witness to the stolid lack of imagination in his work--when cy twombly scribbles-- we are witnessing something ! imagination !!! that this guy can keep painting the same similar ... Read More 
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