Larry Poons

by David Ebony and Karen Wilkin

Larry Poons (b. 1937) shot to fame while still in his twenties, on the strength of his "dot paintings," in which dots or ellipses were meticulously arranged on brightly colored fields, creating a rhythmic, pulsating effect. But within a few years, Poons first loosened the hard-edged precision of the dot paintings and then abandoned them entirely for an organic mode of abstraction based on vertical drips of flung paint. This marked the beginning...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789213419
• ISBN13: 9780789213419
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Abbeville Press
• Length: 474 Pages
• Weight: 8.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.6" x 12.6" x 11.4"