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The portal : Pousette-Dart

Polcari, StephenFinn, David(By (photographer))
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The American artist Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992) is best known as an Abstract Expressionist painter of spiritual works.

He equated art with religion, stating that "the greater the art, the more religious".

His life-long devotion to the sacred in art lies behind his portal "Cathedral", which is set in the facade of the Mary Fendrich Hulman Pavilion of the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

This bronze door was inspired by his 1978-80 painting of the same name, a black-and-white work consisting of a wide variety of forms and symbols, many of which seem to have mythological and religious origins.The portal is analyzed in detail in this book, which seeks to reveal the place of Pousette-Dart's work in the history of modernism.

The photographs follow the artist's sculptural forms, composed of polished bronze surfaces and the mysterious, shadowy channels between them.

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Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
0810963523 / 9780810963528
Hardback
759.13
01/03/1998
United States
English
100p. : ill. (some col.)
23 cm
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