{"product_id":"jack-whitten-cosmic-soul","title":"Jack Whitten: Cosmic Soul","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eby Jack Whitten (Artist), Richard Shiff (Contributor) \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis comprehensive monograph, authored by art historian Richard Shiff, offers a multifaceted and critical interpretation of Jack Whitten’s art-making and philosophy of life. Informed both by Whitten’s extensive writings and his personal conversations with the author, ‘Cosmic Soul’ offers a close reading of the artist’s outlook. Vividly illustrated and ranging freely through the course of the artist’s remarkable six-decade career, Shiff’s text illuminates the distinctive character of Whitten’s thought and the art it generated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJack Whitten (1939–2018) was born in Bessemer, Alabama, and was raised in the Jim Crow South. He studied art at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he was heavily involved in civil rights demonstrations. After moving to New York in 1960, he studied art at Cooper Union and quickly fell in love with, and was deeply influenced by, the Abstract Expressionist painters. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSwiss-bound softcover \/ 19.2 x 25.5 cm \/ 360 pages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hauser \u0026 Wirth Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42644713406510,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/1113\/8094\/files\/a1_eed2b6a8-f96f-4eaa-aa3e-3ca02317174a.webp?v=1787243710","url":"https:\/\/shop.artsbma.org\/products\/jack-whitten-cosmic-soul","provider":"SHOP ARTS BMA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}