Joe Zucker

The first comprehensive monograph on the art of Joe Zucker.

Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 09 January 2020
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Due to the frequent transformations in his art from one style to another, Joe Zucker has flown under the radar of larger public awareness. As a result, his work has not been easily characterized and identified. Nevertheless, he has forged a powerful artistic persona as a process artist with a certain pop inflection, who not only grapples with formal and theoretical concerns but also explores themes of history, culture, and Americana.

This career-spanning survey deals with all of Joe Zucker's various bodies of work, from his grid paintings of the 1960s to his latest pieces, including the monumental 1000 Brushstrokes (2015–1016). Zucker's art is rooted in a conceptual framework where tools, materials, processes, procedures, content, and subject matter are all interrelated. Working with materials ranging from cotton balls, sash cord, peg board, and squeegees to acrylic and rhoplex, and exploring such themes as the grid, the history of cotton, ancient civilizations, an assortment of 'dubious characters,' paintings that paint themselves, as well as meditations on the studio, Zucker merges materials, process, and content – abstract and otherwise – to produce compelling works of extraordinary inventiveness, irony, and passion.

Weight: 1994g
Dimension: 315 x 263 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780500239650