The Space of Effusion
Sam Francis in Japan
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Beschreibung
Between abstraction and tradition: Sam Francis’s fruitful encounters with Japanese culture
One of the world’s preeminent Abstract Expressionists, California-born painter Sam Francis (1923-1994) first traveled to Japan in 1957, quickly established studios and residences there, and became active in a circle of avant-garde artists, writers, filmmakers, architects, and composers, including members of the nascent Gutai and Mono-ha movements. This book chronicles those connections, as well as his complex and evolving relationship with East Asian aesthetics from the 1950s through the 1990s.
From the very first exhibitions Francis had in Tokyo, critics linked his evocative use of negative space with the Japanese concept of ma, a symbolically rich interval between objects or ideas. This shared pictorial and philosophical syntax laid the foundation for a feedback loop of mutual influence that spurred frequent collaborations between the artist and his Japanese contemporaries, extending into the realms of printmaking, ceramics, music, poetry, publishing, and performance.
Written by art critic and curator Richard Speer, with a foreword by Debra Burchett-Lere, executive director and president of the Sam Francis Foundation, this is the first full-length monograph to explore an important but sometimes overlooked milieu in Post-World War II art—a dialogue between Eastern and Western sensibilities that prefigured our current era of global interconnectedness and cross-cultural exchange. Lavishly illustrated with color plates and archival images, it is an adjunct publication for the related exhibition Sam Francis and Japan: Emptiness Overflowing Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2021), co-curated by Speer.
- Sam Francis is one of the most distinguished American artists and one of the most significant protagonists of Abstract Expressionism in painting
- This is the first book ever to explore Sam Francis’s deep involvement with Japan and Japanese culture
- Features Sam Francis’s own aphoristic essay One Ocean One Cup (1977) that reveals the artist’s reactions to living and working in the transcendental Japanese environment
- Published in cooperation with the Sam Francis Foundation in Pasadena, CA
- Sam Francis ist einer der angesehensten amerikanischen Künstler und zählt zu den Protagonisten des Abstrakten Expressionismus
- Die erste Monografie, die Sam Francis’ Auseinandersetzung mit Japan und der japanischen Kultur umfassend untersucht
- Das Buch betrachtet auch erstmals und eingehend, wie sehr Sam Francis japanische Künstler, Dichter, Musiker, Filmemeacher und Architekten beieinflusste, mit denen er zusammenarbeitete und befreundet war
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Richard Speer
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«Needless to say that this richly illustrated book is a must for all Sam Francis fans, not just in East and West.» Louis Gerber, Cosmopolis
«This rich, subtle, and complex book examines the mutually fulfilling relationship between Sam Francis and Japan and concludes that ‹a culture in which the ego can float and fade away ... was one uniquely suited to a painter whose thoughts hovered halfway between earth and eternity.» Arts & Antiques
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“Needless to say that this richly illustrated book is a must for all Sam Francis fans, not just in East and West.” Louis Gerber, Cosmopolis
“This rich, subtle, and complex book examines the mutually fulfilling relationship between Sam Francis and Japan and concludes that 'a culture in which the ego can float and fade away ... was one uniquely suited to a painter whose thoughts hovered halfway between earth and eternity.” Arts & Antiques
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