Louis Finkelstein

Louis Finkelstein Late Paintings

Writings

SELECTED WRITINGS BY LOUIS FINKELSTEIN

The Unpicturelikeness of Pollock, Soutine & Others:Selected Writings & Talks by Louis Finkelstein 1st Edition

This book includes transcripts of talks given under the auspices of the Modern Master Series at New York’s Studio School (a revisionary view on Pollock and on the logic of Soutine) and articles published in leading art periodicals. The articles include: Thoughts About Painterly; On the Unpicturelikenes of Our Seeing among others. Also included are 50 reproductions referencing the writings.
ISBN-13: 978-1877675676
ISBN-10: 1877675679

Link to the PDF of the Louis Finkelstein essay, Painterly Representation, from the Ingber Gallery (1975)

  • “Marin and de Kooning.” Magazine of Art, v. 43, n. 6 (October 1950), 202—6.
  • “New Look: Abstract Impressionism,” Art News, v. 55, n. 1 (March 1956), 36-9.
  • “Cajori: Drawings,” Scrap, no. 5, March 17, 1961.
  • “Gotham News.” Art News Annual XXXIV. Reprinted in The Avant Garde, Thomas Hess and John Ashberry, eds. New York: Macmillan, 1969.
  • “Becoming is Meaning.” Art News, v. 68, no. 8 (December 1969):
    44-47, 59.
  • “The Education of the Professional Artist.” Art Education USA, National Education Association, Washington D.C. 1970.
  • “Thoughts About Painterly.” Art News Annual, 1971.
  • Painterly Representation. New York: Ingber Gallery, 1975.
  • “The Artist and the Museum,”(with Frederick Ortner), The Art
    Museum as Educator    , B.Y. Newsom and A.D. Silver, eds. Berkeley,
    University of California Press, 1978.
  • “On the Unpicturelikeness of Our Seeing,” Pictorial Representation, C.F. Nodine and D. Fisher, eds. New York: Praeger. 1979.
  • “The Light of de Kooning.” Art News, v. 66, n. 7 (Nov. 1967), 28—31,
    70—1.
  • “Preliminary Observations Regarding the Education of an Artist,” College Art Journal, 1982.
  • “On Plastic Integrity,” Tribute to Lotte Brand Philip, Abaris Press, 1985.
  • “The Paintings and Drawings of Mercedes Matter,” Modern Painters, 1991.
  • “The Development of Wolf Kahn’s Painting Language,” Wolf Kahn, New York: Abrams, 1996.
  • Catalogue essays on George McNeil, 1989; Lennart Anderson, 1999; Bill Scott, 1999.

UNPUBLISHED LECTURES

  • Thoughts on Cezanne, 1996
  • The Logic of Soutine, 1998
  • Painting as Language, 2000
  • Jackson Pollock: a revisionary view of his work

A large number of Finkelstein’s papers, including published and unpublished essays, are on deposit at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.