Canto V from 18 Cantos
Here are the cantos, eighteen of them, each one different in form, mood, color, beat, scale, and key. There are no cadenzas. Each is separate. Each can stand by itself. But its fullest meaning it seems to me, is when it is seen together with the others.
—Barnett Newman, "Preface to 18 Cantos," 1964
Credit: Gift of the Celeste and Armand Bartos Foundation
1963
One from an illustrated book with eighteen lithographs and one lithographed title page
36.4 x 32.5cm
287.1964.6
Image © 2019 Barnett Newman Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Text © MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York
Text © MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York
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