COLOUR AFTER KLEIN. RETHINKING COLOUR IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART
RETHINKING COLOUR IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART
ALISON, JANE
Colour After Klein explores the use of colour in the work of 20 of the most influential contemporary artists. Through essays, artists profiles and personal writings by famous artists, this book provides new perspectives on the emotional, conceptual and aesthetic significance of colour.
As suggested by the work of Yves Klein, this book is not about colour rules or colour theory; instead it takes pleasure in the oscillation between the aesthetic and the conceptual, materiality and immateriality, the object and the void, purification and mystification, and between erasure and colouring in. Colour is celebrated for its immanence, its quality of being in the world, but also the potential it has to open up a psychic space, a world of lost feeling; with literally the power to take us over, colour us in.
Colour After Klein explores the significance of colour as it emerges in the work of 20 of the most influential artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including Yves Klein, Donald Judd, Bruce Nauman, Louise Bourgeois, Andy Warhol and James Turrell. Featuring an introduction by curator Jane Alison, an essay that explores the place of colour in the work of Yves Klein by art historian Nuit Banai, and profiles of each of the contributing artists, this book provides a new perspective on key works of Modern and contemporary art. Also included in the book are artists' writings on the subject of colour, with pieces by Klein, Judd and Hélio Oiticica.
This book accompanies the exhibition Colour After Klein at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, 27 May to 11 September 2005.
