Published by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (in association with Harry N. Abrams), New York, 1995 (first edition, first printing).
Large quarto hardcover in the original dust jacket.
219 pages. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour and black-and-white.
Published to accompany Ross Bleckner's major mid-career retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, this substantial monograph surveys one of the most important American painters of the late twentieth century. It reproduces more than 120 works spanning his celebrated stripe, chandelier, memorial and constellation paintings, with essays by Lisa Dennison, Thomas Crow and Simon Watney.
ROSS BLECKNER: Born in 1949, Ross Bleckner emerged as one of the leading American painters of the 1980s. His work explores themes of memory, mortality, loss and healing, and many of his best-known paintings responded to the AIDS epidemic. His works are held in major international museum collections including the Guggenheim, Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum.
This is the first major scholarly monograph devoted to Bleckner's work, issued in conjunction with the landmark Guggenheim retrospective. It remains an essential reference for collectors of contemporary American art.