Rackstraw Downes

Author : Sanford Schwartz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691120478
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rackstraw Downes written by Sanford Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rackstraw Downes paints down-to-earth, often gritty features of today's American environment in an unflinching and highly realistic style. This book is the first to provide a multifaceted picture of his work, its intellectual foundations, and its place in the history of art--from both outside commentators and Downes himself. Beautifully illustrated, with copious examples from thirty years of the artist's work, the book makes eminently clear why Downes is widely regarded as a "painter's painter." It showcases many of the artist's panoramic pictures--painted with a strong sense of place and a miniaturist's sense of scale. The images, which depict industrial parks, construction sites, housing projects, refineries, razor wire, and landfills, stimulate fresh thoughts about these supposedly unattractive sights. Bathed in the light of a precise time, the paintings resonate with a strikingly evocative quality. The three essays that accompany Downes's art provide rare insights into the way a painter thinks and works. Sanford Schwartz explores the relationships between the artist's personal and intellectual background and his oeuvre. Robert Storr situates Downes in the context of a number of highly prominent contemporary artists such as Chuck Close, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Jasper Johns, Gerhard Richter, and Robert Smithson in a way that offers a new interpretation of Downes's work, while making clear its importance within twentieth-century art. Downes's own essay, "Turning the Head in Empirical Space," presents a direct, firsthand account of his working methods within a larger discussion on spatial paradigms of Renaissance and post-Renaissance modes of painting.

Author : Andrea Packard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780999390436
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rackstraw Downes written by Andrea Packard and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 48-page catalog was published on the occasion of the exhibition titled Rackstraw Downes: A Wider View, which took place at the List Gallery, Swarthmore College March 5 - April 5, 2020. The catalog includes essay by the exhibition curator, Andrea Packard, and Alfred Mac Adam.

Author : Rackstraw Downes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Gowanus and Razor-wire Journal written by Rackstraw Downes and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeffrey Yang
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 9781555978198
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hey, Marfa written by Jeffrey Yang and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary lyric and visual meditation on place, nature, and art rippling out from Marfa, Texas Situated in the outreaches of southwest Texas, the town of Marfa has long been an oasis for artists, immigrants looking for work, and ranchers, while the ghosts of the indigenous and the borders between languages and nations are apparent everywhere. The poet and translator Jeffrey Yang experienced the vastness of desert, township, sky, and time itself as a profound clash of dislocation and familiarity. What does it mean to survive in a physical and metaphorical desert? How does a habitat long associated with wilderness and death become a center for nourishment and art? Out of those experiences and questions, Yang has fashioned a fascinating, multifaceted work—an anti-travel guide, an anti-Western, a book of last words—that is a lyrical, anthropological investigation into history, culture, and extremity of place. Paintings and drawings of Marfa’s landscapes and substations by the artist Rackstraw Downes intertwine with Yang’s texts as mutual nodes and lines of energy. Hey, Marfa is a desert diary scaled to music that aspires to emit particles of light.

Author : Marilyn Aronberg Lavin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226469584
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Piero Della Francesca written by Marilyn Aronberg Lavin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1990-06-22 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lavin's study of the Pierro della Francesca "Flagellation" at Urbino, as befits this exquisite masterpiece, is a model of lucid and precise exposition as well as being an exciting exercise of scholarship. Informed with the intellectual rigour of Scholastic exegesis, it deserves to be placed with the classic readings of fifteenth and sixteenth century works by Erwin Panofsky and Edgar Wind."—Spectator "[Lavin] leaves the picture more wondrous than before, a simultaneous triumph of the theological and biographical, as well as pictorial, imagination."—Rackstraw Downes, New York Times Book Review

Author : Carl Little
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780892727124
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paintings of Maine written by Carl Little and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on the popularity of the original Paintings of Maine, published in 1991, Carl Little has selected the artworks for this new collection of Maine paintings. Not a revised second edition, this all-new Paintings of Maine features more than 100 Maine paintings-none of which appeared in the earlier edition-by more than 100 artists. Featuring classic and contemporary works, this volume is a tribute to the state. Those who enjoyed the first edition will be thrilled by this new collection. Book jacket.

Author : Joe Fig
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1616894687
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside the Artist's Studio written by Joe Fig and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was your earliest childhood artwork that received recognition? When did you first consider yourself a professional artist? How has your studio's location influenced your work? How do you choose titles? Do you have a favorite color? Joe Fig asked a wide range of celebrated artists these and many other questions during the illuminating studio visits documented in Inside the Artist's Studio—the follow-up to his acclaimed 2009 book, Inside the Painter's Studio. In this remarkable collection, twenty-four painters, video and mixed-media artists, sculptors, and photographers reveal highly idiosyncratic production tools and techniques, as well as quotidian habits and strategies for getting work done: the music they listen to; the hours they keep; and the relationships with gallerists and curators, friends, family, and fellow artists that sustain them outside the studio.

Author : Sharon Corwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982292235
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Five American Painters written by Sharon Corwin and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pablo Picasso
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Picasso on Art written by Pablo Picasso and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1977 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fairfield Porter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art in Its Own Terms written by Fairfield Porter and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Considered one of America's most influential painters, Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) was also a prolific and insightful critic. Replacing doctrinal cant with concise lucidity, his writing not only displays the same the original mind that presided over his visual works but also covers an extraordinary period in American art, in which he played the double role of protagonist and witness. Porter believed that "criticism should tell you what is there," and these essays - which treat figures as diverse as Rodin, Leonardo, de Kooning, Cornell, and Cezanne, and such topics as the relations between art and science and abstraction versus realism - form a key statement in the ongoing discussion between modern art and its past. An introduction by the painter and critic Rackstraw Downes beautifully sets the stage for this indispensable and illuminating volume."--BOOK JACKET.