Arnulf Rainer

This is the catalog for the first museum exhibition of Austrian abstract artist Arnulf Rainer's work in the United States. The exhibition was organized by the Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, in collaboration with premiered at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York. It premiered at the Guggenheim in May 1989, and traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Historisches Museum Der Stadt Wein, Vienna; before ending its tour at the Haags Gemeentemuseum in January and February 1990. The catalog includes 140 four-color plates and several black and images of Rainer's work, the essays "The Labyrinth" by R H Fuchs and "The Great Arch" by Franz Dahlem, and ten texts by Rainer himself including "Painting to Forsake Painting", "Even Before Language", and "The Completely Dark Picture".