The Estate of Jack Tworkov is honored to announce the publication of
The Extreme of the Middle: Writings of Jack Tworkov
edited by Mira Schor
The first comprehensive publication of the writings of Jack Tworkov, a significant painter, teacher, and author of the Abstract Expressionist Period.
Published by Yale University Press
The Extreme of the Middle: Writings of Jack Tworkov
edited by Mira Schor
The first comprehensive publication of the writings of Jack Tworkov, a significant painter, teacher, and author of the Abstract Expressionist Period.
Published by Yale University Press
"In the course of his long life as a painter, Jack Tworkov became an important figure in the maturation of abstract art in America."
-Richard Armstrong, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum
"Jack Tworkov was a free thinker in an ideological time. This collection is an indispensable addition to the story of American Art."
-Mark Stevens, co author of the Pulitzer Prize winning biography de Kooning: An American Master
The Extreme of the Middle is a moving portrayal in his own words of the personal and artistic life of an original and deeply serious painter who was one of the major figures of the Abstract Expressionist movement. It offers a fascinating and beautifully written new perspective on post-War American art including significant writings on the Eighth Street Club, Abstract Expressionism, and on artists such as John Cage, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, and Ad Reinhardt.
The book is structured to give a revelatory and personal insight into the full experience of being an artist over a lifetime, including autobiographical reflections, and wise analysis of how to negotiate career highs and lows with grace, through personal journals and letters, teaching notebooks, correspondence with other artists, previously unpublished essays and published essays.
Mira Schor’s introduction offers biographical information on Jack Tworkov and gives historical and critical context for his work and his writing; further, extended footnotes offer an informative glimpse into the rich world of artists in New York City in the twentieth-century, from the WPA years to the early 1980s.
The book is illustrated with color reproductions of Tworkov’s finest works and enriched by photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Irving Penn, Arnold Newman, and Robert Rauschenberg, as well as family photographs with Hans Hofmann, John Cage, Franz Kline, and others.
upcoming
exhibitions:
JACK TWORKOV: AGAINST EXTREMES
Five Decades of Painting
[more info]
August 13-October 27, 2009
opening reception: Thursday, August 20 6-8PM
This exhibition is organized by Norte Maar,
curated by Jason Andrew and sponsored by UBS.
UBS ART GALLERY
1285 Avenue of the Americas @ 52nd Street
New York City
A concurrent exhibition of Jack Twrokov's papers will be on view at the Archives of American Art Research Center and Gallery located on the ground floor of 1285 Avenue of the Americas.
