Will Barnet: Painting Without Illusion. the Genesis of Four Works from the 1960s

by Will Barnet and Patrick J. McGrady

"My interest has been in developing further the plastic convictions that have been evolving in my abstract paintings; so that a portrait, while remaining a portrait, becomes in this sense an abstraction: the idea of a person in its most intense and essential aspect." --Will Barnet, 1962

Will Barnet (1911-), much like Chuck Close and Alex Katz, has approached painting through sustained exploration of the relationship between abstract, geometric...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 091120959X
• ISBN13: 9780911209594
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Palmer Museum of Art
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 10.9"