This book presents the evolution of Richard PousetteDart’s styles and philosophy and provides an in-depth look at his ever-evolving painting techniques. The essays focus on his major themes and periods, and include his contributions to the complexity of the intellectual and stylistic language of the Abstract Expressionist movement.

This groundbreaking volume on Richard PousetteDart is the most comprehensive publication on his painting to be published since the artist’s death. It provides fresh insights into his oeuvre by five outstanding, contemporary art historians, who have interpreted the artist’s creative output from the 1930s to 1992.

Richard Pousette-Dart, one of the founding members of the New York School, created paintings, drawings, sculptures, and journals for over sixty years. The youngest member of the first generation of American Abstract Expressionists, Pousette-Dart shared with his fellow -artists’ interests in psychology, myth-making, anthropology, and both African and American tribal art. Along with Pollock, Rothko, de Kooning, Motherwell, and others, Pousette-Dart created the art movement known as The New York School.

This book presents the evolution of Richard PousetteDart’s styles and philosophy and provides an in-depth look at his ever-evolving painting techniques. The essays focus on his major themes and periods, and include his contributions to the complexity of the intellectual and stylistic language of the Abstract Expressionist movement.

Richard Pousette-Dart: Transcending Abstraction

Sam Hunter

Richard Pousette-Dart: The Body of Painting

Pepe Karmel

Forms and Symbols

John Yau

An Opaque Transparency:

The Studio Notebooks

Martica Sawin

Richard Pousette-Dart:

In the Context of Abstract Expressionism

Robert Mattison

Selected Works

Appendixes

Chronology

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

Selected Statements by the Artist

Selected Bibliography

Selected Museum and Public Collections

Photographic Credits