Joan Mitchell: I carry my landscapes around with me

Texts by Suzanne Hudson and Robert Slifkin

I Carry My Landscapes Around With Me focuses on American abstract artist Joan Mitchell’s large-scale multipanel works from the 1960s through the 1990s.

Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at David Zwirner New York in 2019, this book offers a unique opportunity to explore the range of scale and formal experimentation of this innovative area of Mitchell’s extensive body of work. It not only features reproductions of each painting in this selection as a whole, but also numerous details that allow an intimate understanding of the surface texture and brushwork. In the complementing essays, Suzanne Hudson examines boundaries, borders, and edges in Mitchell’s multipanel paintings, beginning with her first work of this kind, The Bridge (1956), considering them as both physical and conceptual objects; Robert Slifkin discusses the dynamics of repetition and energy in the artist’s paintings, in relation to works by Monet and Willem de Kooning, among others.

Hardcover, 10 × 14 in | 25.4 × 35.6 cm, 104 pages, 57 color illustrations.