Al Taylor Prints: Catalogue Raisonné
Edited by Michael Semff. Text by Debbie Taylor
The delicate Postminimalist sculptures and drawings of the American artist Al Taylor (1948–1999) were for a long time better known in Europe than in the U.S., despite Taylor’s residing in New York. Laboring quietly from the mid-1980s until his premature death from cancer at the age of 51, Taylor made abstract drawings and sculptures derived from found materials that refresh both abstraction and Postminimalism with their gentle humor and lightness of touch. Working in a decade that favored less discreet gestures, Taylor never loomed large in the New York art world’s consciousness (despite his brief tenure as a studio assistant to Robert Rauschenberg). Alongside an increasing number of exhibitions, this publication helps to remedy that oversight, providing a catalogue raisonné of Taylor’s graphic works, thereby retrieving a previously little-known aspect of his oeuvre. Aside from the published prints, it also reproduces all of the artist’s proofs and variants, which often differ significantly from the final versions.
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Artists: Al Taylor
Contributors: Michael Semff, Debbie Taylor
Publication Date: 2014
Binding: Hardcover
Dimensions: 9.5 x 11.75 in. (24.9 x 30.7 cm)
Pages: 224
Reproductions: 30 color, 110 duotone
ISBN: 9783775726467
Retail: $60 US & Canada | £35 | €40
Status: Available
Al Taylor
Al Taylor (1948–1999) was an American artist known for his uniquely innovative approach to process and materials that encompassed two-dimensional drawings and three-dimensional objects. Taylor ultimately sought to expand the possibilities of vision by creating new ways of experiencing and imagining space and his work provides the viewer with an insight into the artist’s thinking and his investigations of perception across several dimensions.
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