Yve-Alain Bois on Ellsworth Kelly

An art historian reflects on his experience compiling a catalogue of the late artist’s work

Yve-Alain Bois on Ellsworth Kelly

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By James Cuno

Jun 29, 2016 37:22 min

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“He was always about the particular. The completely particular. This particular shape, this particular form, this particular color... everything is completely unique and particular.”

So says Yve-Alain Bois, art historian and professor of art history at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, about the celebrated late artist Ellsworth Kelly. In this conversation, Bois shares what he learned about Kelly’s life, artistic process, and interest in the particular while working on the artist’s catalogue raisonné.

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