Franz Kline: The Artist's Materials

This book offers the most detailed investigation thus far of the materials and methods of this key American Abstract Expressionist artist.

Although Franz Kline was one of the seminal figures of the American Abstract Expressionist movement, he is less well known than contemporaries such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. This is partly because Kline, unlike most artists in his circle, did not like to write or talk about his own art. In fact, when asked in a panel to discuss abstract ...