Bernard Frize [Hardcover]

This is the first full-length monograph on the paintings of Bernard Frize (b.1949), an artist whose work straddles movements and styles from Colour Field to Minimalism, Fluxus, and Conceptual Art. Frize's works utilise a carefully constructed range of tools, processes, choreography and collaboration to catalogue, in complex and unexpected abstract form and colour, the possibilities of his chosen materials.

Emerging from the politicised 1970s onwards, Frize swam against the tide of opinion regarding paintings apparent obsolescence to develop a painting practice that could express political commitment and social concerns, while avoiding both overt statement and pure decoration.

David Rhodes text provides a detailed consideration of Frizes development, from the earliest works onwards. Placing his paintings in a broader art-historical and philosophical context, a wider conversation about painting itself is presented alongside Frize's significant place within the medium's history.

This book focuses on the paintings of Bernard Frize, an artistwhose work straddles movements and styles from Colour Field to Minimalism,Fluxus, and Conceptual Art. It provides a detailed consideration of all stagesof Frizes development, from the earliest works to the present.

David Rhodes is a painter, writer and critic based in New York. He writes regularly forArt Critical,Art ForumandThe Brooklyn Rail.Foreword by Barry Schwabsky; 1. Finding a Way; 2. Painting and Its Others; 3. Painting and Thinking; 4. Series and Hapax; 5. Approaching a Painting Methodology; 6. Consistent Change; 7. Abstract Painting's Slow Return; 8. Berlin and the Present; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Biography; Selected Group Exhibitions; Selected Public Collections; Acknowledgements; Image Credits; IndexDavid Rhodes reconsiders the critical reception of Frize’s work from the 1970s to the present , reviewing its current preeminent place in both the critical canon anl£©