Robert Mangold

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Robert Mangold (b.1937) is one of the most significant American painters to have emerged in the late twentieth century. His work is collected in the world’s finest museums and he has exhibited internationally since the 1960s. This is the first ever and most comprehensive of Mangold’s contribution to painting, with contributions by some of the most respected writers of contemporary art.

Mangold was greatly influenced by the Abstract Expressionism, and his paintings maintain the large scale and bold immediacy associated with artists such as Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko. At the same time, emerging in the 1960s alongside such artists as Richard Serra and Sol LeWitt, Mangold is often associated with Minimalism because of his straightforward and geometric compositions. In contrast to the hard-edged Minimalists, however, Mangold’s gently curved paintings and subtle, evocative colours recall a variety of sources – from frescos to traditional Greek ceramics. With a beauty, tranquillity and sensitivity reminiscent of the work of Piero della Francesca, Mangold’s art challenges the state of painting today, resulting in over thirty years’ worth of fundamentally important avantgarde art – and some of the most majestically beautiful abstract paintings of the last half century.

Richard Shiff is an art historian and the Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art and Director of the Center for the Study of Modernism at the University of Texas at Austin.

Robert Storr is Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, formerly Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Arthur C Danto is Johnsonian Professor Emetrius of Philosophy at Columbia University, New York, and the art critic for The Nation.

Nancy Princenthal is a noted American art critic whose writings have appeared in Art in America, Parkett and Artforum, among other journals. 

Sylvia Plimack Mangold is a painter and has been married to Robert Mangold since 1961.

‘For anyone devoted to book collecting in the field of contemporary art, and particularly in the area of contemporary painting, this book is a ‘must have’. This monograph is perhaps one of the most beautifully designed and comprehensively thoughtful works to come along for a long time and it might just represent a major departure from an old model of monographs to a new model that is more inclusive than exclusive of the artist, his or her critics and the realm in which he or she operates. Present day publishers and editors asked to rethink approaches to the twenty-first-century art book might begin with this example.To those familiar with Mangold’s art all this should really come as no surprise, since Mangold is a purist himself and this book truly and intelligently mimics the ideas at which the artist has been steadily at work since the mid 1960s … with this new book it is quite evident that Mangold joins a new pantheon of great painters, including Sean Scully, Agnes Martin and Ellsworth Kelly, all of whom continue to re-describe and re-define the character, strength, style and possibilities for abstract painting in this century.’ (Michael Klein, curator of the Microsoft Art Collection, The Art Book)

‘A beautifully designed and presented monograph devoted to an American abstract artist of today who deserves to be better known on this side of the Atlantic.’ (The Sunday Telegraph)

Additional information

Dimensions	1.125 × 9.875 × 9.875 in
Imprint	Phaidon Press
Format	General Trade
ISBN-13	09780714844480
ISBN-10	0714844489
Author	Arthur C Danto, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Nancy Princenthal
Audience	General / adult