This book offers not only stunning reproductions of the artist's work but also important new research into the life of one of the creative giants of the second half of the twentieth century. This book presents for the first time a comprehensive overview of this New Mexico period and investigates the critical role it played in Diebenkorn's exploration of the idiom of abstraction and the maturation of his art.
Museum of New Mexico Press. It also demonstrates how new mexico's desert landscape and light affected Diebenkorn's artistic route toward figurative painting and the landscape-inspired abstractions of his greatly acclaimed Ocean Park series.
Richard Diebenkorn: Beginnings, 1942-1955
This catalogue, compiled to accompany a traveling exhibition of the same name, focuses on Diebenkorn s evolution to maturity. Yet diebenkorn s earliest paintings and drawings remain little known. These early pieces evolved rapidly from representational landscape scenes and portraits of military colleagues, to semiabstract and Surrealist-inspired depictions of topography and the human form, to the artist s mature Abstract Expressionist paintings.
It features nearly two hundred paintings and drawings, many from the collection of the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation, that precede his shift to figuration. Many of these pieces will be unfamiliar to the public, yet they offer a fuller picture of Diebenkorn s precocious achievements and set the stage for what was yet to come.
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Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series
The ocean park series, begun in 1967and comprising works in a variety of media, is arguably the most celebrated of his illustrious career. This stunning exhibition catalogue celebrates in-depth for the first time Richard Diebenkorn’s seminal Ocean Park works, serving as a major reference and a source of new scholarship on the series.
The paintings, drawings, and collages that make up the series are examined from diverse perspectives in essays that bring to light new influences and conceptual frameworks that reposition the Ocean Park series, prints, as well as the artist’s role in the history of postwar art. As he traversed the worlds of abstract expressionism and figurative painting, Diebenkorn became one of America’s most beloved postwar artists.
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Matisse/Diebenkorn
. Though they never met, palette, composition, Matisse was an enduring source of inspiration for the Californian artist, and their works share surprising similarities in subject, and technique. Prestel USA. Prestel Publishing. This sumptuously illustrated book brings together the work of Henri Matisse and Richard Diebenkorn as never before, illuminating unexpected resonances that connect the two artists across time and space.
The volume is rounded out by an introduction by john elderfield, who knew Diebenkorn personally and has curated exhibitions of both artists’ work; an essay by Jodi Roberts on parallels between the artists’ drawings; and a bibliography documenting Diebenkorn’s collection of books about the French artist.
Essays by janet bishop and katherine rothkopf explore how this influence evolved over time, connecting the work of the two painters and highlighting the ways Diebenkorn drew from Matisse’s example to forge a style entirely his own.
Abstract Painting: The Elements of Visual Language
Prestel Publishing. Generously illustrated with over 200 color images, this book will open your eyes to a whole new way of seeing your paintings as they develop, allowing you to be more personally expressive and authentic in your artistic expression.
Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
From their cold-water lofts, drank, and loved, fought, where they worked, these pioneers burst open the door to the art world for themselves and countless others to come. And helen frankenthaler, the beautiful daughter of a prominent New York family, chose the difficult path of the creative life. Elaine de kooning, whose brilliant mind and peerless charm made her the emotional center of the New York School, used her work and words to build a bridge between the avant-garde and a public that scorned abstract art as a hoax.
Gutsy and indomitable, lee krasner was a hell-raising leader among artists long before she became part of the modern art world's first celebrity couple by marrying Jackson Pollock. In ninth street women, acclaimed author Mary Gabriel tells a remarkable and inspiring story of the power of art and artists in shaping not just postwar America but the future.
Her gamble paid off: at twenty-three she created a work so original it launched a new school of painting. These women changed american art and society, tearing up the prevailing social code and replacing it with a doctrine of liberation. Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Jennifer Szalai, generous, New York Times.
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Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism
The reasons why, if speculative, surely include our imminent environmental collapse and increasingly digitally mediated existence. With over 400 color reproductions, including many details, this ambitious survey makes a compelling case for the continued relevance of landscape painting in our time. Featured artists are etel adnan, jules de balincourt, noa charuvi, peter doig, vincent desiderio, francis alÿs, genieve figgis, tim gardner, inka essenhigh, lucas arruda, john beerman, pat de groot, franz gertsch, Cynthia Daignault, Barnaby Furnas, Verne Dawson, Amy Bennett, Lois Dodd, Richard Estes, Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Adrian Ghenie, April Gornik, Tim Eitel, Ayman Baalbaki, Hurvin Anderson, Mamma Andersson, Will Cotton, Cecily Brown, Gillian Carnegie, Ali Banisadr, Maureen Gallace, Hernan Bas, Rackstraw Downes, Jane Freilicher, Andreas Eriksson, Daniel Heidkamp, Nigel Cooke, Barkley L.
Schwabsky’s text weaves throughout the book, through its transformation in the 20th century, tracing the history of landscape painting from its origins in Eastern and Western art, to its present flourishing. Landscape painting now is the first book of its kind to take a global view of its subject, featuring more than eighty outstanding contemporary artists―both established and emerging―whose ages span seven decades and who hail from twenty-five different countries.
Through its thematic organization into six chapters―realism and beyond, fleshy landscapes to peter doig’s magic realist renderings of trinidad, david Hockney’s radiant capturings of seasonal change in the English countryside, and Complicated Vistas―the book affords a generous window into the very best of contemporary landscape painting, Alexis Rockman’s mural-sized, postapocalyptic dioramas, Constructed Realities, from Cecily Brown’s sensual, New Romanticism, Maureen Gallace’s serene views of beach cottages and the foaming ocean, Abstracted Topographies, Post-Pop Landscapes, Julie Mehretu’s dynamically cartographic abstractions, and far beyond.
Lee Krasner
This richly illustrated monograph is a comprehensive survey of the work of one of the twentieth century’s most dynamic artists. 250 color illustrations Prestel USA. Prestel Publishing. A richly illustrated monograph on the life and work of Lee Krasner, one of the twentieth century’s most inspiring women artists and a pioneer of abstract expressionism.
In 1984, lee krasner 1908–1984 became one of the few women artists to have been given a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She quipped about her belated recognition: “I was a woman, a widow, thank you, a damn good painter, Jewish, and a little too independent. One of the original pioneers of abstract expressionism, Krasner has for too long been eclipsed by her husband, Jackson Pollock.
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Richard Diebenkorn: The Sketchbooks Revealed
Richard diebenkorn: the Sketchbooks Revealed provides a unique look into this previously inaccessible trove of images. And gretchen diebenkorn Grant contributes a remembrance of her father and his artistry. Prestel Publishing. Prestel USA. Presented together in this book, offering intimate access to the practice of a well-known, the sketchbooks become a revelation of sorts, important, and prolific artist.
Essays by enrique chagoya, Alexander Nemerov, Peggy Phelan, and Steven A. Nash offer insights in to the artist's career, working process, and the visual dialogues Diebenkorn forged with fellow artists past and present. All twenty-nine sketchbooks are represented, including one reproduced in its entirety.
Scattered across these books are deeply personal sketches of his wife and studies of the human figure, grand landscape studies, and evidence of the development and maturation of Diebenkorn's signature approaches to figuration and abstraction. Taken together, these sketchbooks offer a nearly complete look at his career, from his twenties to the years just before his death at age seventy.
Throughout his long career, richard Diebenkorn always kept a sketchbook―a portable studio, as he called it―to capture his ideas.
Women of Abstract Expressionism
Prestel USA. Prestel Publishing. Yale Univ Pr. Essays by noted scholars explore the techniques, concerns, and legacies of women in Abstract Expressionism, shedding light on their unique experiences. This groundbreaking book reveals the richness of the careers of these important artists and offers keen new reflections on their work and the movement as a whole.
. Lavishly illustrated with full-color plates emphasizing the expressive freedom of direct gesture and process at the core of the movement, this book features biographies of more than forty artists, offering insight into their lives and work. Women of abstract Expressionism is a long-overdue survey.