Ad Reinhardt is probably best known for his black paintings, which aroused as much controversy as admiration in the American art world when they were first exhibited in the 1950s. Although his ideas about art and life were often at odds with those of his contemporaries, they prefigured the ascendance of minimalism. Reinhardt's interest in the Orient and in religion, his strong convictions about the value of abstraction, and his disgust with the commercialism of the art world are as fresh and valid today as they were when he first expressed them.
Barbara Roseis the author of books on Joan Miro, Claes Oldenburg, Lee Krasner, and Ellsworth Kelly and has twice received the College Art Association's Mather Award for distinguished criticism.
List of Illustrations
Introduction by Barbara Rose
I. Reinhardt on Reinhardt
Editor's Note
Chronology (1966)
A Contribution to a Journal of Some Future Art Historian (1958)
Five Stages of Reinhardt's Timeless Stylistic Art-Historical Cycle
(1965)
Reinhardt Paints a Picture (1965)
An Interview with Ad Reinhardt (1966-1967)
Monologue (1970)
II. Art as Art
Editor's Note
[Abstraction vs. Illustration] (1943)
Abstract Art Refuses (1952)
25 Lines of Words on Art: Statement (1958)
Art-as-Art (1962)
[Art-as-Art] (1962-63)
The Next Revolution in Art (1964)
Art in Art is Art-as-Art (1966)
39 Art Planks: Programs for "Program" Painting (1963)
There Is Just One Painting (1966)
[Art-as-Art] (1966-67)
III. The Black Paintings
Editor's Note
[The Black-Square Paintings] (1963)
The Black-Square Painting Shows, 1963, 1964, 1965 (1966)
Abstract Painting, Sixty by Sixty Inches Square, 1960, (1963)
[On the Black Paintings] (1963)
Black as Symbol and Concept (1967)
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