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010 $a2016024522
020 $a9783791355603 (hbk.) :$cNT$1748
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050 00$aND237.M41183$bA4 2016
050 4$aND237.M2155$bA4 2016
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245 00$aJohn McLaughlin paintings :$btotal abstraction /$cedited by Stephanie Barron and Lauren Bergman ; with contributions by Stephanie Barron, Lauren Bergman, Tony Berlant, Michael Duncan, Russell Ferguson, and Ilene Susan Fort.
260 $aLos Angeles :$bLos Angeles County Museum of Art ; Munich ;$aLondon ;$aNew York :$c2016.$bDelMonico Books, Prestel,
300 $a143 p. :$bill. ;$c28 cm.
500 $aPublished in conjunction with the exhibition John McLaughlin Paintings: Total Abstraction at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California (November 13, 2016-April 16, 2017).
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00$gForeword --$gIntroduction /$rStephanie Barron --$tJohn McLaughlin and four abstract classicists /$rIlene Susan Fort --$tHonesty, seriousness, and ambition /$rRussell Ferguson --$tDriving home in neutral /$rMichael Duncan --$tEmbracing the enigma /$rTony Berlant with Lauren Bergman --$gChronology --$gExhibition history --$gWorks in the exhibition --$gLenders to the exhibition --$gAcknowledgments --$gIndex.
520 $aThis long-overdue retrospective book on a pioneer of West Coast abstraction considers John McLaughlin's body of work and his unique influence on the Los Angeles postwar art scene. For decades before his death in 1976, John McLaughlin steadily produced some of the most fascinating paintings coming out of Southern California. Minimal geometric abstractions characterized by clean lines, bold colors, and flat, intersecting forms, McLaughlin's paintings investigate symmetry and composition, and are largely informed by the Japanese notion of ma-the special emptiness between forms. Generously illustrated with more than 80 images, the book features reproductions of the self-taught artist's works and celebrates their simple beauty and precision. In addition, insightful essays explore McLaughlin's relative obscurity in the pantheon of 20th-century American artists, his influence on contemporaries and later artists, and the role of Asian art and philosophy in McLaughlin's practice.--$cProvided by publisher.
600 10$aMcLaughlin, John,$d1898-1976$vExhibitions.
650 0$aPainting, Abstract$zUnited States$vExhibitions.
700 1 $aBarron, Stephanie,$d1950-$eeditor.
700 1 $aBergman, Lauren,$eeditor.
700 1 $aBerlant, Anthony,$econtributor.
700 1 $aDuncan, Michael,$d1953-$econtributor.
700 1 $aFerguson, Russell,$econtributor.
700 1 $aFort, Ilene Susan,$econtributor.
700 1 $aMcLaughlin, John,$d1898-1976.$tPaintings.$kSelections.
710 2 $aLos Angeles County Museum of Art,$eorganizer,$ehost institution.