Frank Bowling : mappa mundi / edited by Okwui Enwezor ; with contributions by Frank Bowling, Okwui Enwezor, Rose Jones, Kobena Mercer, Anna Schneider, Zoe Whitley, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.

Featuring numerous works and rarely seen large-scale paintings from Frank Bowling's sweeping 60-year career, this book highlights the artist's magnificent use of sensuous color and rich texture in pictures that are at once absorbing and tactile. When they were first exhibited in the late 1960s, Fran...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bowling, Frank, 1934- (Author, Artist)
Enwezor, Okwui (Author, Editor)
Mercer, Kobena, 1960- (Author)
Schneider, Anna (Art historian) (Author)
Whitley, Zoé (Author)
Yiadom-Boakye, Lynette, 1977- (Author)
Corporate Authors: Haus der Kunst München (Host institution, Issuing body, Publisher)
Irish Museum of Modern Art (Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland) (Host institution)
Sharjah Art Foundation (Host institution)
Prestel Verlag (Publisher)
Other Authors: Jones, Rose (Contributor)
Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
Text in English.
Published: Munich, Germany : Munich, Germany ; London, England ; New York, New York : Haus der Kunst ; Prestel, [2017]
Subjects:
Bowling, Frank, > 1934- > Exhibitions.
Bowling, Frank, > 1934- > Correspondence.
Bowling, Frank, > 1934-
Color-field painting > Exhibitions.
Art informel > Exhibitions.
Painting, British > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Painting, British > 21st century > Exhibitions.
Painters, Black > Exhibitions.
Records and correspondence.
Exhibition catalogs.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Correspondence.
Records and correspondence.
Exhibition catalogs.
Physical Description:286 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, facsimiles ; 30 cm
Variant Title:
Mappa mundi
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Directors' Foreword / Okwui Enwezor and Sarah Glennie
  • Mappa Mundi: Frank Bowling's Cognitive Abstraction / Okwui Enwezor
  • Charting the Atlantic Sublime / Kobena Mercer
  • Known Waters: Frank Bowling's Painterly Insights and Outlooks / Zoe Whitley
  • Works in the Exhibition / Frank Bowling
  • To Walk the Waters of the World / Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
  • Selected Works: 1960-2015 / Frank Bowling
  • Selected Writings: 1969-1993 / Frank Bowling
  • Correspondence--Frank Bowling and Clement Greenberg / with an introduction by Rose Jones
  • Frank Bowling: An Annotated Biography / Anna Schneider.