Bernard Frize

Name/Title

Bernard Frize

Entry/Object ID

N9500.F754.R4 2019

Description

"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 painting's 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 Frize's 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."

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Search Terms

artist monographs, painting, abstract--france

Legacy Lexicon

Category

Book

Book Details

Author

David Rhodes

Publisher

Lund Humphries

Place Published

City

London

Date Published

2019

ISBN

9781848223479

Notes

Length: 144