探索布里斯•马登（Brice Marden）的美术家身份，以及绘画媒介在他的作品中所起的催化作用

1979年，布莱斯•马登（Brice Marden，生于1938年）要求人们将他的绘画视为“空间”，这反映了绘画是一种手段，这种手段的意义远远超出了它的两个物理维度。这本插图丰富的专著收录了从1975年到2019年的作品，包括以前从未公开的2010年创作的《Letters from Borobudur》。这本书详细探讨了6个绘画系列，这几个系列几乎涵盖了Marden的整个职业生涯。除了罕见的早期单色作品外，三组1979-80年代的绘画作品——Mirabelle Addenda，Shell和Cold Mountain Studies——预示了这位艺术家成熟的线性作品，并突出了马登在纸上进行思考和绘画时所发生的发明和排列过程。

An exploration of Brice Marden’s draftsmanship and the catalytic role the medium of drawing plays in his larger oeuvre

In 1979, Brice Marden (b. 1938) asked that his drawings be thought of “as spaces,” reflecting the idea that drawing is a medium that is much more than its two physical dimensions. Looking closely at six series of drawings that span nearly the entirety of Marden’s ongoing career, this luxuriously illustrated presentation features works spanning from 1975 to 2019, including the never-before-published Letters from Borobudur of 2010. In addition to rarely seen early monochrome works, three groups of 1979–80s drawings—Mirabelle Addenda, Shell, and Cold Mountain Studies—foreshadow the artist’s mature linear work and highlight the process of invention and permutation that occurs as Marden thinks and draws on paper. A concise overview of Marden’s drawing practice investigates the geographies and methods that inform his work, while an artist interview offers insight into how Marden uses the medium as a means of exploring the creation of spaces on drawing surfaces.