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Bernard Frize

Bernard Frize
Library Shelf Location 18.FRIZ
Publication Date 2019
Description

This is the first full-length monograph on the paintings of Bernard Frize (b.1949), an artist whose work straddles movements and styles from Colour Field to Minimalism, Fluxus, and Conceptual Art. Frize's works utilise a carefully constructed range of tools, processes, choreography and collaboration to catalogue, in complex and unexpected abstract form and colour, the possibilities of his chosen materials.

Emerging from the politicised 1970s onwards, Frize swam against the tide of opinion regarding painting’s apparent obsolescence to develop a painting practice that could express political commitment and social concerns, while avoiding both overt statement and pure decoration.

David Rhodes’ text provides a detailed consideration of Frize’s development, from the earliest works onwards. Placing his paintings in a broader art-historical and philosophical context, a wider conversation about painting itself is presented alongside Frize's significant place within the medium's history.

ISBN 9781848223479
Quantity 1
Pages 144pp
Author Bernard Frize
Format Hardback
Publisher Lund Humphries Publishers
Related Artist Bernard Frize
Categories Artist (relating to a single artist/collaborative team), Painting
Keywords Abstract painting, Color Field, Minimalism
Artist's Nationality French
Language English

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