JAFFE, Shirley
Shirley Jaffe - Form as Experiment

Shirley Jaffe (1923 –2016) led a productive, uncompromising and individualistic artist’s life dedicated entirely to painting. Although her oeuvre testifies to a great need for control as well as to courage in the face of complexity, it still remains playful, dynamic and nimble-footed. The texts in this book are an invitation to adopt this headstrong, sometimes contradictory view of the world.

The publication constitutes an appealing mix of assessments and testimonies by Jaffe’s companions, along with the latest art-historical research findings based on documents from the artist’s estate never published before.

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With contributions by Svetlana Alpers, Claudine Grammont, Shirley Jaffe, Robert Kushner, Olga Osadtschy, Frédéric Paul and Molly Warnock

Published by Christoph Merian Verlag
Monographs