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Hess's kabbalistic Newman (1971)

Hess 1971
nature
Thomas B. Hess's catalogue for the Newman memorial retrospective at MoMA, which read the paintings through Lurianic Kabbalah — the zip as tzimtzum, the fields as the sefirot, the titles as a programme.

The reading that put Newman in this wing in the first place. Everything downstream — Gorlin, the Amsterdam exhibition, this pack — is arguing with or agreeing with Hess.
rhymes with
sephirahbinah
whyBinah builds the structure. Hess built one over a body of work and it has never come off.
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hess · 1971 · moma · newman · kabbalah · catalogue · interpretation · luria
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