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Article: Wolf Kahn.(BookForum)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- November 1, 1996
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Wolf Kahn, who is arguably the most successful contemporary landscape painter in the United States, has now been rewarded a big, handsome, definitive book that makes it possible to see his output in relation to its sources and twentieth-century American painting. Justin Spring's thoughtful essay raises this book above the usual coffee-table paean, as does artist and critic Louis Finkelstein's long analytical essay, "The Development of Wolf Kahn's Painting Language."
No doubt the seminal influence on Kahn's painting was Hans Hofmann. "The most useful idea [I gained at the Hofmann School]," Kahn reflected years later, "has been that there is such a thing as formal ...
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