The Sublime was Yesterday. Latest news about Barnett Newman

Abstract

Twenty years after the American publication of Barnett Newman’s writings, they are now appearing in a French translation by Jean-Louis Houdebine. Borrowing the organization and part of the contents of the American edition, the French version, for which we are indebted to Jean Clay, adds a concluding section made up of texts which have mostly been already published and, above all, an impressive critical apparatus which, as J. Clay’s foreword mentions, acts largely as commentary–a euphemism, gi...