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Prairie

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Description: Prairie

TitlePrairie

Creator nameMurray, Robert Gray

Creator nationality/cultureCanadian

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date1965

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsAluminum painted ith red oxide enamel

Dimensions96 × 114 × 32 in

LocationCollection of the Canada Art Bank

SubjectsLarge-scale sculpture--20th centurySculpture, British--20th century

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To Create Oneself
III. The Despair of Self-Awareness

Description: Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonné

Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonné

~To read Newman’s writings of the late 1940s is to become familiar with a certain vocabulary applied to a certain set of themes: he speaks repeatedly of terror, tragedy, and despair as the human content of art; of the need to act and the futility of acting; of the search for the self and the desire to become self-aware; and of the artist’s mission to...

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Richard Shiff, Carol C. Mancusi-Ungaro, Heidi Colsman-Freyberger

PublisherYale University Press

Copyright© 2004 by The Barnett Newman Foundation, New York

Related print edition pages: pp.75-91

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00235.003

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Chapter subject tags:Abstract Expressionism--United StatesPainting, American--20th centuryColor-field paintingSublime, The, in artArt criticism--United States--History--20th century

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