Published on the occasion of the retrospective organised for the twentieth anniversary of the Castello di Rivoli and edited by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, this is the most up-to-date monograph on Franz Kline (1910-1962), the great American master of Abstract Expressionism and a leading protagonist of twentieth-century art.
The book, which presents a broad and thorough panorama of Kline's artistic journey, offers the reader more than one hundred pieces comprising relief works, paintings, drawings, sketches and documentary material from leading public and private collections throughout the world. The aim is to show the most important stages in Kline's work: from early oil paintings dating from the end of the 1930s and through the 1940s, in which it is possible to see realist inspiration, to the decisive shift towards Abstract Expressionism, documented by a selection of large works in black and white and the final canvasses in which the artist returned to using colour.