Peter Schjeldahl, New York Times Book Review
"Reinhardt . . . remains an urgently contemporary figure in art and the life of art. . . . He has already been a major subterranean influence in the generation of Minimal and Post-Minimal art . . . and seems ready for wide recognition as one of the most significant cultural figures of the past quarter- century."
Book Description
Ad Reinhardt is probably best known for his black paintings, which aroused as much controversy as admiration in the American art world when they were first exhibited in the 1950s. Although his ideas about art and life were often at odds with those of his contemporaries, they prefigured the ascendance of minimalism. Reinhardt's interest in the Orient and in religion, his strong convictions about the value of abstraction, and his disgust with the commercialism of the art world are as fresh and valid today as they were when he first expressed them.
