Mary Heilmann

Save the Last Dance for Me

Terry R Myers, Mary Heilmann

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MIT Press
23 March 2007

Art & design styles: Abstract Expressionism; Painting & paintings; Individual artists, art monographs

Series: Afterall Books / One Work

"An illustrated study of Mary Heilmann's seductive 1979 abstract painting in hot pink and black, Save the Last Dance for Me.""You want beauty? I'll give you beauty!""-Mary Heilmann

Mary Heilmann is one of the most important abstract painters of her generation. Her distinctively fluid, humorous, and bright canvases combine the modes of Abstract Expressionism with a vibrant Pop sensibility. Heilmannn's 1979 painting in hot pink and black, evocatively titled Save the Last Dance for Me, marked a shift in the artist's perspective. Heilmann describes it- ""Now the work came from a different place. Instead of working out of modernist non-image formalism, I began to see that the choices in the work depended more on content for their meaning."" This beautifully illustrated study of Save the Last Dance for Me explores the development of Heilmann's work, and the way it continues to engage us-psychologically, sensually, and socially.

The three bright pink rectangles in Heilmann's painting seem to dance off the edge of the canvas, through a black field that seems dark as a nightclub after midnight-or perhaps the three are actually one pink rectangle, seen in a blissfully formal time lapse, moving across the dance floor/canvas. These definitively modernist geometric forms coexist with a sense of movement in real time. For many, abstraction may have been dancing its last dance in 1979, but Heilmann's bright pink rectangles boogie on."

By: Terry R Myers
Designed by: Mary Heilmann
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9781846380310
ISBN 10: 1846380316
Series: Afterall Books / One Work
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 23 March 2007
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Terry R. Myers is a Chicago- and Los Angeles-based writer, educator, and independent curator. A regular contributor since 1988 to numerous international journals, including ArtReview, The Brooklyn Rail, Parkett, and Modern Painters, he is the author of Mary Heilmann-Save the Last Dance for Me (Afterall Books, 2007). He is Associate Professor of Paintingand Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.