Description: The essays at the front of the book are genuinely interesting and informative. The main section of the book is good quality full page reproductions of the Pictograph works. The book does cover nicely the full time period with a great number and range of works.Included is a brochure of the Gottlieb exhibit from The Brooklyn Museum."Today when our aspirations have been reduced to a desperate attempt to escape from evil, and times are out of joint, our obsessive, subterranean and pictographic images are the expression of the neurosis which is reality. To my mind, so-called abstraction is not abstraction at all. on the contrary, it is the realism of our time."- Adolph Gottlieb, “The Ides of Art: The Attitudes of Ten Artists on Their Art and Contemporaneousness,” The Tiger's Eye, December 1947In 1994, the Gottlieb Foundation organized an exhibition titled "The Pictographs of Adolph Gottlieb", which was a survey of the breakthrough Pictograph paintings that Adolph Gottlieb began in 1941 – the year the United States entered WWII. This exhibition began at The Phillips Collection in Washington DC in September 1994, then traveled to the Portland Art Museum in Maine, The Brooklyn Museum, and ended at the Arkansas Art Center in November of 1996.Review:"'The Pictographs of Adolph Gottlieb' was an important show for several reasons. First, 59 crisply intelligent, precisely colored, and exquisitely brushed oil paintings were on display. Second, a highly significant but little-known episode in the career of a distinguished American painter has been superbly documented. And finally, a reordering in the pantheon of American Abstract painters is politely, but persistently petitioned...Gottlieb's pictographs constitute some of the best-sustained explications of the power and possibilities of abstract art ever made."Weil, Rex. ''Adolph Gottlieb: Phillips Collection'', Artnews, January 1995
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780964206502
Publisher: Gottlieb Foundation, Incorporated, Adolph & Esther
Book Title: Pictographs of Adolph Gottlieb
Publication Year: 1994
Number of Pages: 144 Pages
Language: English
Illustrator: Yes
Author: Sanford Hirsch, Linda K. Kramer, Charlotta Kotik, Lawrence Alloway, Evan M. Maurer
Format: Trade Paperback
