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actions and deeds of Mark Tobey, determines the position of Tobey's work in the American modern art, especially during the Cold Culture War, and explains the artistic relationship between Tobey and Pollock. In his text, Ductus, Stroke and Graphics in Tobey's Work, Kosme de Barañano demonstrates that, as a symbol for multifacetedness, Tobey’s writing was not limited to fine, white structures, but that the many different kinds of phenomena each have their own correspondent in the many different types of writing and color used in painting. In Some notes on some works by Mark Tobey Heiner Hachmeister explains different aggregate states of related works and their different tenors, comments Tobey's late work and debates his paintings on Styrofoam.
The illustrations in color concentrate only on Tobey's abstract work. Beginning with the firstly illustrated 1944 white writing tempera Written Stone, the book presents further masterpieces from the 40ies and 50ies like Promenaders (1945), Central (1949) or New Crescent from 1953 and Meditative Series VIII (1954). Important paintings from the 60ies like one of Tobey's rare oil paintings Untitled (1965), the series of Night Celebrations from 1969 – 71 or the large sized Ecstasy of Growth(1967) show the high-aged artist's powerful exposition of his calligraphic painting. Full-paged illustrations of details from early and late works allow to study Tobey's
virtuosity which let painting become light and space. |
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March 2005
Arthur Lyon Dahl, Ph.D., son of the famous collectors Joyce and Arthur Dahl, has lived all his life with Mark Tobey's paintings. He has his own Tobey collection, a considerable archive on the artist and his parent's books and papers. Arthur Dahl gives frequently lectures about Mark Tobey and, together with his brother, is just finalizing a complete illustrated inventory of the 100 works that were at one time or another in his parent's collection. Now CMT welcomes Arthur Dahl who lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland, as a new corresponding member of the committee. |
