Larry Poons

by Barbara Rose, Karen Wilkin, and David Ebony

Michael Fried (Introduction) and David Anfam

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Larry Poons (b. 1937) shot to fame while still in his twenties, on the strength of his “dot paintings,” in which dots or ellipses were meticulously arranged on brightly coloured fields, creating a rhythmic, pulsating effect. But within a few years, Poons first loosened the hard-edged precision of the dot paintings and then abandoned them entirely for an organic mode of abstraction based on vertical drips of flung paint. This marked the beginning of an uncompromising five-decade evolution that has finally led the artist back to a more intimate mode of painting with brushes — and his own hands....

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  • ISBN10 0789213419
  • ISBN13 9780789213419
  • Publish Date 1 October 2020 (first published 30 May 2002)
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 474
  • Language English