The Artist's Materials

Corina E. Rogge, Zahira Veliz Bomford

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Getty Conservation Institute,US
30 August 2022

Conservation, restoration & care of artworks; Art & design styles: Abstract Expressionism; Painting & paintings; Biography: arts & entertainment

Series: Artist's Materials

This book offers the most detailed investigation thus far of the materials and methods of this key American Abstract Expressionist artist.

Although Franz Kline was one of the seminal figures of the American Abstract Expressionist movement, he is less well known than contemporaries such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. This is partly because Kline, unlike most artists in his circle, did not like to write or talk about his own art. In fact, when asked in a panel to discuss abstract art, Kline said, ""I thought that was the reason for trying to do it, because you couldn't [talk about it]."" Still, his impact was such that the critic and art historian April Kingsley wrote, ""Abstract Expressionism as a movement died with him.""

This volume, the newest addition to the Artist's Materials series from the Getty Conservation Institute, looks closely at both Kline's life and work, from his early years in Pennsylvania to his later success in New York City. Kline's iconic paintings are poised on a critical cusp: some have already undergone conservation, but others remain unaltered and retain the artist's color, gloss, and texture, and they are surprisingly vulnerable. The authors' presentation of rigorous examination and scientific analysis of more than thirty of Kline's paintings from the 1930s through the 1960s provides invaluable insight into his life, materials, and techniques. This study provides conservators with essential information that will shape future strategies for the care of Kline's paintings, and offers readers a more thorough comprehension of this underappreciated artist who is so central to American Abstract Expressionism.

By: Corina E. Rogge, Zahira Veliz Bomford
Imprint: Getty Conservation Institute,US
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 191mm,
ISBN: 9781606067642
ISBN 10: 1606067648
Series: Artist's Materials
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 30 August 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Corina E. Rogge is the Andrew W. Mellon Research Scientist at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Menil Collection.

Reviews for The Artist's Materials

This book is an essential addition to the Franz Kline literature as well as the scholarship on painting conservation. It provides the first thorough investigation of Kline's materials and techniques through intensive analysis of a substantial number of works. These technical studies are interwoven with an overview of Kline's biography and historical position. -Robert S. Mattison, author of the catalogue raisonne Franz Kline Paintings, 1950-1962; Franz Kline's abstract paintings in white and black are among the most celebrated and instantly visually impactful works of the Abstract Expressionist movement. Corina Rogge and her collaborators have produced the first scientific study of Kline's materials and methods. Fluently written and full of new technical analyses, this illuminating book helps us to better see and understand the many different whites, and blacks, and colors that Kline used in his paintings. It will be required reading for serious scholars of Kline, and important for anyone who wants to understand the experimental means by which Kline developed the particular punch of his signature style. -AnnMarie Perl, Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University