Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. On Kawara, Conceptual Artist Who Found Elegance in Every Day, Dies at 81. By ROBERTA SMITH. JULY 15, 2014. On Kawara, a Conceptual artist who... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. On Kawara, Conceptual Artist Who Found Elegance in Every Day, Dies at 81. By ROBERTA SMITH. JULY 15, 2014. On Kawara, a Conceptual artist who devoted his career to recording the passage of time as factually and self-effacingly as art would... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. On Kawara, Conceptual Artist Who Found Elegance in Every Day, Dies at 81. By ROBERTA SMITH. JULY 15, 2014. On Kawara, a Conceptual artist who devoted his career to recording the passage of time as factually and self-effacingly as art would allow, died in late June in New York City, where he had worked for 50 years. He was 81. The David Zwirner Gallery, his representative, announced the death on its website. Mr. Kawara's family declined to... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. On Kawara, Conceptual Artist Who Found Elegance in Every Day, Dies at 81. By ROBERTA SMITH. JULY 15, 2014. On Kawara, a Conceptual artist who devoted his career to recording the passage of time as factually and self-effacingly as art would allow, died in late June in New York City, where he had worked for 50 years. He was 81. The David Zwirner Gallery, his representative, announced the death on its website. Mr. Kawara's family declined to provide the date of death or the names of survivors, in keeping with his lifelong penchant for privacy. Working in painting, drawing and performance, Mr. Kawara kept himself in the background and almost never gave interviews. The rare published... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. On Kawara, Conceptual Artist Who Found Elegance in Every Day, Dies at 81. By ROBERTA SMITH. JULY 15, 2014. On Kawara, a Conceptual artist who devoted his career to recording the passage of time as factually and self-effacingly as art would allow, died in late June in New York City, where he had worked for 50 years. He was 81. The David Zwirner Gallery, his representative, announced the death on its website. Mr. Kawara's family declined to provide the date of death or the names of survivors, in keeping with his lifelong penchant for privacy. Working in painting, drawing and performance, Mr. Kawara kept himself in the background and almost never gave interviews. The rare published photographs of him showed him from the back. Toward the end of his life, he stopped attending his own openings.... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (4)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
On Kawara (Dallas Museum of Art)
2007
Wylie, Charles; Ervin Laszlo, Takafumi Matsui
16,952 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)