Frank Bowling : mappa mundi / edited by Okwui Enwezor ; with contributions by Frank Bowling, Okwui Enwezor, Rose Jones, Kobena Mercer, Anna Schneider, Zoe Whitley, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Haus der Kunst, Munich, June 23, 2017-January 7, 2018; IMMA, Irish Museum of Modern Art, March 24-July 8, 2018; and Sharjah Art Foundation, September-December 2018. Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-281) and index. Frank Bowling: Mappa Mundi" : June 23, 2017-January 7, 2018, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany. Frank Bowling: Mappa Mundi" : March 24-July 8, 2018, IMMA, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland. Frank Bowling: Mappa Mundi" : September-December, 2018, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Contents:
Frank Bowling: An Annotated Biography / Anna Schneider. Mappa Mundi: Frank Bowling's Cognitive Abstraction / Okwui Enwezor -- Charting the Atlantic Sublime / Kobena Mercer -- Known Waters: Frank Bowling's Painterly Insights and Outlooks / Zoe Whitley -- Works in the Exhibition / Frank Bowling -- To Walk the Waters of the World / Lynette Yiadom-Boakye -- Selected Works: 1960-2015 / Frank Bowling -- Selected Writings: 1969-1993 / Frank Bowling -- Correspondence--Frank Bowling and Clement Greenberg / with an introduction by Rose Jones -- Frank Bowling: An Annotated Biography / Anna Schneider.
Summary:
Featuring numerous works and rarely seen large-scale paintings from Frank Bowling's sweeping 60-year career, this book highlights the artist's magnificent use of sensuous color and rich texture in pictures that are at once absorbing and tactile. When they were first exhibited in the late 1960s, Frank Bowling's immense "map paintings" were widely celebrated for their vibrant color and subtle modulation of the painted surface. These works, like many in Bowling's oeuvre, draw on the principle of mapping to create a kind of mental geography, woven throughout with personal and historic imagery. This collection of paintings from throughout Bowling's career features exquisite reproductions that illuminate his experiments with material and the paintings' wide range of pictorial possibilities. Accompanied by an extensive curatorial survey, art historical contributions, prose poem, biographical visual essay, as well as the collected writings and correspondence of the artist, this book offers an in depth exploration of Bowling's career and aspects of his journey from his home in Guyana to London and New York. It also highlights references to the natural world and his use of classical and literary symbolism. This book creates a true mappa mundi--an evolving map of Bowling's inner and physical worlds.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.