Wolf Kahn Pastels

Introduction 6(15) Barbara Novak WOLF KAHN PASTELS 15(137) Wolf Kahn To Begin: Why Pastel? 15(1) The ``Real Value'' of One's Work 16(4) Formal Relations 20(2) ``Studies'' 22(3) ``Interesting Lines'' 25(1) Start 26(1) Hard Work 27(5) The Use and Misuse of Drawing 32(2) Early Pastels 34(4) Pastel Drawing 38(3) Snow 41(3) The C & O Canal 44(3) Reaching 47(3) The Color Purple 50(3) Position 53(5) ``Composition'' 58(6) Spring 64(2) Openness, Density, Transparency 66(4) Simplicity 70(4) Dry 74(2) Wet 76(2) Drastic Changes 78(3) Confrontation 81(1) ``Light Sponges'' 82(3) Using Photographs 85(1) The Weight of the Sky 86(4) Working from Nature 90(4) Color 94(4) Celebrating a Single Color 98(5) Bright Orange 103(6) Zagreb 109(1) Italy 110(3) Venice 113(3) Riversides 116(4) Scale 120(2) Barns 122(5) Glow 127(3) Trying to be Nature 130(2) Wilful Ambiguity or the Excluded Middle 132(3) Fall 135(5) Concave and Convex 140(2) Strategies and Meanings 142(4) Tangles 146(2) When is it Finished? 148(4) WOLF KAHN: CHRONOLOGY 152(3) Ellen Russotto Index 155