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Adolph Gottlieb

A Powerful Will to Art

Thursday, Dec 12
6 – 8 PM EST
540 West 25th Street
New York

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Adolph Gottlieb: A Powerful Will to Art
Thursday, Dec 12
6 – 8 PM EST
540 West 25th Street
New York

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Pace Live is pleased to present a celebratory book launch of Adolph Gottlieb: A Powerful Will to Art published by Gregory R. Miller & Company.

Featuring a conversation between Harry Cooper, Bunny Mellon Curator of Modern Art at the National Gallery of Art and James Lawrence, Critic and Historian of Modern and Contemporary Art, this Pace Live conversation coincides with Vital Images, an exhibition of late paintings, works on paper, and sculpture by Gottlieb, at Pace's 540 West 25th Street gallery in New York.

James Lawrence

James Lawrence is a critic and historian of modern and contemporary art. His research focuses on advanced painting, sculpture and drawing by leading American and European practitioners. Recent topics have included studies of Richard Serra, Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz, and Rachel Whiteread. His discussion of Adolph Gottlieb in this book is his latest examination of the most notable styles that emerged in New York during the 1940s and established the enduring vocabulary of postwar experimental painting. Lawrence trained as an art historian in London before earning a doctorate from The University of Texas at Austin. He has published dozens of articles, exhibition reviews, and editorials on arts policy in The Burlington Magazine and other journals. His analytical essays have accompanied exhibitions at major museums and commercial galleries around the world. He lives in New York.

Harry Cooper

Harry Cooper was recently appointed Bunny Mellon Curator of Modern Art at the National Gallery of Art, having served as head of modern and contemporary art there for sixteen years. Before that he curated for a decade at the Harvard Art Museums. A native of Bethesda, Maryland, Cooper studied studio art at the Corcoran School and earned a Ph.D. from Harvard with a dissertation on Piet Mondrian. He has organized or co-organized exhibitions on the work of Mondrian, Medardo Rosso, Frank Stella, Stuart Davis, Oliver Lee Jackson, Philip Guston, and Helen Frankenthaler (forthcoming). Cooper's publications include essays on Adolph Gottlieb, Juan Gris, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Martin Puryear, Mark Rothko, Ed Ruscha, and Fred Sandback, as well as The Cubism Seminars, which he edited and introduced for the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery.