The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration

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Total Pages : 98 pages
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Elmer Bischoff

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520230426
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis Elmer Bischoff by : Susan Landauer

Download or read book Elmer Bischoff written by Susan Landauer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-10-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Elmer Bischoff is one of the small handful of truly fine artists at mid-century and beyond working in Northern California. His art is of national importance. In Susan Landauer he has the author who can bring his life and art to us."—Walter Hopps, Twentieth Century Curator, The Menil Collection "This first substantial monograph on Elmer Bischoff offers a warm appraisal of a deacon of West Coast painters, justly celebrated for his lifelong navigation of the "tightrope" between abstract painting's sensual materiality and the ethical implications of a figurative art. Susan Landauer meets her own high standards of nuanced social history, and Bill Berkson's brief introduction is studded with gems."—Caroline Jones, author of Bay Area Figurative Art "Susan Landauer’s new monograph is a welcome addition to Twentieth Century Bay Area art history. She is a specialist, who explores the life and work, attitudes and ideals of this important artist, his European and American influences, in parallel with those of his famous colleagues, Richard Diebenkorn and David Park. She brings historical understanding and esthetic subtlety to the study as she digs into the artist’s esthetic and educational philosophy, the relation between painting and improvised jazz, temporary blocks and personal crises, as well as his complete reinventions of his drawing and painting. All this is set in the context of the life of art in the Bay Area community (1940-1990) and results in a readable work of value to professionals while remaining accessible to more casual readers."—Gerald Nordland, author of Richard Diebenkorn

Elmer Bischoff

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520230422
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis Elmer Bischoff by : Susan Landauer

Download or read book Elmer Bischoff written by Susan Landauer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-10-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Elmer Bischoff is one of the small handful of truly fine artists at mid-century and beyond working in Northern California. His art is of national importance. In Susan Landauer he has the author who can bring his life and art to us."—Walter Hopps, Twentieth Century Curator, The Menil Collection "This first substantial monograph on Elmer Bischoff offers a warm appraisal of a deacon of West Coast painters, justly celebrated for his lifelong navigation of the "tightrope" between abstract painting's sensual materiality and the ethical implications of a figurative art. Susan Landauer meets her own high standards of nuanced social history, and Bill Berkson's brief introduction is studded with gems."—Caroline Jones, author of Bay Area Figurative Art "Susan Landauer’s new monograph is a welcome addition to Twentieth Century Bay Area art history. She is a specialist, who explores the life and work, attitudes and ideals of this important artist, his European and American influences, in parallel with those of his famous colleagues, Richard Diebenkorn and David Park. She brings historical understanding and esthetic subtlety to the study as she digs into the artist’s esthetic and educational philosophy, the relation between painting and improvised jazz, temporary blocks and personal crises, as well as his complete reinventions of his drawing and painting. All this is set in the context of the life of art in the Bay Area community (1940-1990) and results in a readable work of value to professionals while remaining accessible to more casual readers."—Gerald Nordland, author of Richard Diebenkorn

David Park

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520268415
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis David Park by : Nancy Boas

Download or read book David Park written by Nancy Boas and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-03-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautifully illustrated biography, compiled from comprehensive and sweeping interviews, Nancy Boas traces Parks resolute search for a new kind of figuration, one that would penetrate abstract expressionisms thickly layered surfaces and infuse them with human presence.

It's Figuration, Groundly

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Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788036433
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis It's Figuration, Groundly by : John McGreal

Download or read book It's Figuration, Groundly written by John McGreal and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John McGreal's three new books – It’s Abstraction, Concretely, It’s Figuration, Groundly and It’s Representation, Really – continue the ‘It’ Series published by Matador since 2010. They constitute another stage in an artistic journey exploring the visual and audial dialectic of mark, word and image that began over 25 years ago. Emerging out of the first books on the Bibliograph published in 2016, initiated with It’s Nothing, Seriously, these new texts retain some of the same structural features. The Bibliographs contain the same focus on repetition and variation in meaning of their dominant motifs of representation, abstraction and figuration which have framed philosophical discourse on epistemology and ontology in aesthetics; their chance placement in each Bibliograph interspersed with one another displaying and enhancing similarities and differences. At the same time these works constitute a development in the aesthetic form of the Bibliograph. In earlier works on Nothing, Absence and Silence, it was just a question of finding and transferring given textual references from their source to construct their Bibliographs, with the focus being on the strategic position of the latter within each book. In these new works, the concern has been with working on the line and shape of the references themselves, with their enhanced spacial form as well as that of each Bibliograph as a whole. In shaping and spacing the referential images, the place of words and letters became as important as their semantic & syntactical role. Expansion and contraction of whole words was used to enhance this process. Under such detailed attention their breakdown into particles of language, into part-words and single letters was a result. The recombination of elements produced new words in a process of restrangement with new sequences of letters having visual rather than semantic value. The play on prefixes of dominant motifs yielded new words as did tmesis. This concern with the form of referential images does not preclude an equal commitment to their content. The aleatory character of textual entries in each Bibliograph encourage the reader to let his or her mind go; to read in a new way on diverse contemporary issues across conventional boundaries in the arts and sciences at several levels of physical, psychical and social reproduction.

Of Dogs and Other People

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520292200
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis Of Dogs and Other People by : Susan Landauer

Download or read book Of Dogs and Other People written by Susan Landauer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Roy De Forest's brightly colored, crazy-quilted jungles dotted with nipples of paint and inhabited by a cast of characters uniquely his own (a perennial favorite being his wild-eyed, pointy-eared dogs) appeal to a broad spectrum of viewers from young to old, from the casual visitor to the most sophisticated art aficionado. OMCA's project aims to reassess De Forest's art-historical position, placing him in a national rather than solely regional/West Coast context. Landauer positions De Forest as part of a bicoastal alternative current of American art that has been poorly documented and deliberately ran counter to better publicized tendencies of the 1960s and 1970s, notably Pop, Minimalism, and post-painterly abstraction. Despite the playfulness of his work, close study of De Forest's art reveals deep layers of meaning. He was a fan of popular science fiction and adventure stories, but he was also well versed in Australian aboriginal art, ukiyo-e prints, poetry, literature, and the history of philosophy. He enjoyed secreting obscure art-historical references into his work: animals might assume postures found in Medieval or Renaissance art, or a drawing that appears to depict a comic-book character may in fact refer to Titian's triple-headed allegory of Prudence. This engaging publication presents gorgeous color reproductions of 150 of De Forest's finest artworks, plus a variety of figure illustrations that illuminate the artist's diverse sources and freewheeling social and creative milieu in Northern California."--Provided by publisher.

A Troublesome Subject

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520273834
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis A Troublesome Subject by : Jonathan Fineberg

Download or read book A Troublesome Subject written by Jonathan Fineberg and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major book to consider the life and work of Robert Arneson, A Troublesome Subject tells the fascinating story of how a high school art teacher transformed himself into an artist of international stature and ambition. Representing the full scope of ArnesonÕs career in a rich survey of color reproductions, this book is at once a study of the trajectory of contemporary culture, the work of Robert Arneson, and the relationship between the two. It shows how ArnesonÕs work articulated the crisis of narcissism that has defined American culture since 1970. Jonathan Fineberg develops his ongoing work toward a psychosocial history of art as he proceeds through ArnesonÕs careerÑchronicling his early life, the formation of a personal style, and finding a unique subject matter in his famous post-1970 turn to self-portraiture.

Imagery

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Publisher : Board and Bench Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1891267922
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (912 download)

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Book Synopsis Imagery by : Bob Nugent

Download or read book Imagery written by Bob Nugent and published by Board and Bench Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1985, winemaker Joe Benziger and Sonoma artist Bob Nugent struck on the idea of putting original art on special releases of Imagery Estate wines. The goal was straight-forward: commission the world's modern art luminaries to create works for reproduction onto wine labels. Two decades and 160 labels later, they have assembled a staggering collection of contemporary art, from the likes of Sol Lewitt, Terry Winters, Nancy Graves, John Baldessari, Judy Pfaff, and Bob Arneson. This book highlights 133 works of art, the best of the Imagery collection. The images are big and lush, and accompanied by biographical sketches of the artists' careers, as well as a short description of their individual ideas and methods. The pictorial index shows the works in their label-form, from 1985 to the most recent vintages. These images are evocations of wine's multi-faceted ability to inspire us.

New Art Examiner

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book New Art Examiner written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The independent voice of the visual arts.

Going There

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300245742
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Going There by : Richard J. Powell

Download or read book Going There written by Richard J. Powell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A kaleidoscopic survey of black satire in 20th- and 21st-century American art In this groundbreaking study, Richard J. Powell investigates the visual forms of satire produced by black artists in 20th- and 21st-century America. Underscoring the historical use of visual satire as antiracist dissent and introspective critique, Powell argues that it has a distinctly African American lineage. Taking on some of the most controversial works of the past century—in all their complexity, humor, and provocation—Powell raises important questions about the social power of art. Expansive in both historical reach and breadth of media presented, Going There interweaves discussions of such works as the midcentury cartoons of Ollie Harrington, the installations of Kara Walker, the paintings of Robert Colescott, and the movies of Spike Lee. Other artists featured in the book include David Hammons, Arthur Jafa, Beverly McIver, Howardena Pindell, Betye Saar, and Carrie Mae Weems. Thoroughly researched and rich in context, Going There is essential reading in the history of satire, racial politics, and contemporary art.

Women of Abstract Expressionism

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300208421
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Women of Abstract Expressionism by : Joan Marter

Download or read book Women of Abstract Expressionism written by Joan Marter and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication contains a survey of female abstract expressionist artists, revealing the richness and lasting influence of their work and the movement as a whole as well as highlighting the lack of critical attention they have received to date.

Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Painting

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Total Pages : 44 pages
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Book Synopsis Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Painting by : Oakland Art Museum

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Selections

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Total Pages : 300 pages
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Book Synopsis Selections by : San Jose Museum of Art

Download or read book Selections written by San Jose Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Legacy in Continuum

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ISBN 13 : 9781600520525
Total Pages : 42 pages
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Art Now Gallery Guide

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Art Now Gallery Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Not-So-Still Life

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520239388
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book The Not-So-Still Life written by Susan Landauer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-11-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Presenting, interpreting, and celebrating the world-renowned and the lesser-known California artists who have uniquely defined and redefined the still life, this volume offers an exploration of the sensual pleasures, the aesthetic challenges, and the intellectual and perceptual associations of a century of art through the prism of a single genre."--BOOK JACKET.

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

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Publisher : Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
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Download or read book Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art written by Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and published by Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design. This book was released on 2004 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: