Essays by Betty Ann Brown, Margarita Nieto, Peter Selz, and Jack Rutberg
Foreword by Robert Bucker

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This exhibition catalogue highlights works by Hans Burkhardt that he gave to the university during his thirty years as a faculty member. With nearly 100 color plates, this publication covers works spanning over half of his life and shows his development of multiple stylistic and emotional approaches to his work.

$25.00

This major exhibition catalogue features provocative works for the decade of the 1960s. Hans Burkhardt’s career spans the late 1920s and 30s when he shared the studio of Arshile Gorky in New York, to his final works of the early 1990s in Los Angeles. This publication documents paintings which extended abstract expressionism into poignant realms mirroring the social revolution that informed the decade of the 60s. Included are monumental works such as My Lai, regarded by scholars to be one of the major paintings of modern art.

by Townsend Wolfe

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A 90 page, fully illustrated catalogue of the major touring exhibition curated by Townsend Wolfe for the Arkansas Arts Center. The text includes a preface by Townsend Wolfe and an essay by noted art historian and critic Peter Frank, in which Frank traces the development of Burkhardt’s works on paper. Burkhardt’s mastery of various drawing mediums including ink, charcoal, graphite, watercolor and pastel is evidenced in 55 full page color illustrations. Recognized for his unique brand of Abstract Expressionist painting, the catalogue traces the development of Burkhardt’s style and career-long commitment to drawing, which represented an equally important aspect of the artist’s body of work.

by Peter Selz

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A richly illustrated catalogue published for the 1993 Retrospective Exhibition of Hans Burkhardt pastels in Berlin, Germany. Charting Burkhardt’s career-long interest in this medium, eminent art historian Peter Selz reflects upon “… the richness of expression and symbolism …” in Burkhardt’s pastels of the human figure. Selz observes how Burkhardt’s pastels of the late 1930s with their “… powerful expressionist gestures predict the ferocity of De Kooning’s figurative work of the early 1950s … they recall the expressionism of the Brucke artists, but also share a great deal of the aesthetic of George Baselitz, Rainer Fetting, and Helmut Middendorf.” An excellent representative overview of Burkhardt’s remarkable range in his depiction of the figure “… celebrating it as monumental form with an amazing range of expression for human experience …” In English and German.

by Donald Kuspit
Forward by Jack Rutberg
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Renowned art historian Donald Kuspit reflects upon Burkhardt’s powerful final works. In his richly insightful essay, Kuspit refers to the 1993 series as “remarkable new mixed media works.” Kuspit addresses their rich symbolism and poignancy, regarding them as “… striking … superb examples of … social idea and private vision, external symbol and introspective revelation, traditional icon and modern primitivist form.” Illustrated in full page color images.

by Peter Selz
$25.00

A 90 page book with text by renowned art historian Peter Selz documenting Burkhardt’s most recent paintings, inspired by the Iraq/Kuwait conflict. Selz, in his incisive essay, refers to these paintings as an “astonishing series … and major works of art.” Selz addresses Burkhardt’s unique role art historically as an independent force in twentieth century art. This book illustrates in color the entire series of 36 paintings, begun by Burkhardt the very day following Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. Selz’s essay is illustrated with 14 additional works dating from 1934 to 1968.

by Donald Kuspit
Introduction by Dorothy White
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Renowned art historian Donald Kuspit deals substantively with Burkhardt’s work in a provocative text referring to Burkhardt’s paintings as “masterful … an innovator in the Abstract Expressionist mold … filling the hole in the story” of American painting. Catalogue for the retrospective exhibition presented by Muhlenberg College and then as the featured exhibition at the Galway International Arts Festival, Ireland. Paintings span 1928 through 1990.

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Burkhardt’s powerful “Northridge” series relates the symbolic struggle of artistic survival. Richly painted canvases often employing assemblage, and black pastels remarkable for their tonal range, achieved by Burkhardt’s new inventive use of the medium.

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Bright and richly painted oils from this important period in the development of Abstract Expressionism. Major works primarily from Burkhardt’s “Mexican Period”, including several exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art and The Sao Paulo Biennial, etc. The catalogue essay broadly charts Burkhardt’s history and artistic development, particularly after arriving in Los Angeles in 1937 from New York.

Essay by Dr. Eugene Anderson
Introduction by Jack Rutberg
$40.00

A complete reference documenting Burkhardt’s paintings on the subject of war. This aspect of Burkhardt’s work is regarded by many art historians as an unprecedented artistic response to the subject both in scale and artistic expression. Works spanning 1938 to 1984 relate to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Lebanese crisis.

Catalogue Raisonné by Jack Rutberg. Interview with Hans Burkhardt by Colin Gardner. Essay by Dr. Eugene Anderson (Reprinted from the San Diego Museum catalogue for their exhibition of Hans Burkhardt Vietnam paintings, exhibited in 1968). Introduction by Jack Rutberg.

By Jean-Luc Bordeaux and Melinda Wortz
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A richly illustrated catalogue charting Burkhardt’s career-long commitment to the nude through his extensive use of pastel. Standing as independent works rather than studies for paintings, these drawings dating 1938 through 1983 serve as a virtual compendium of American modernist and contemporary figurative drawing. Informative essays by art historians Bordeaux and Wortz address this important aspect of Burkhardt’s work.

By Aurelio de la Vega
Preface by Jack Rutberg
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Paintings and works on paper from Burkhardt’s “Graffiti Series” inspired by the social upheaval of Basel’s youth in 1981, during one of Burkhardt’s annual visits. Aurelio de la Vega, composer and professor of music at CSUN, places Burkhardt in historical perspective in his informed and poetic essay.