Author: Sanford Schwartz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780691120478
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
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.
Rackstraw Downes
Author: Sanford Schwartz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780691120478
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780691120478
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
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.
Rackstraw Downes
Author: Andrea Packard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999390436
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999390436
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
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.
Under the Gowanus and Razor-wire Journal
Author: Rackstraw Downes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Rackstraw Downes
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734229462
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734229462
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Rackstraw Downes
Author: Rackstraw Downes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
April 9 - May 3, 1997
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
April 9 - May 3, 1997
Five American Painters
Author: Sharon Corwin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982292235
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982292235
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Art at Colby
Author: Colby College. Museum of Art
Publisher: Colby College Press
ISBN: 9780982292211
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Edited by Sharon Corwin.
Publisher: Colby College Press
ISBN: 9780982292211
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Edited by Sharon Corwin.
Inside the Artist's Studio
Author: Joe Fig
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1616894687
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1616894687
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
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.
Art in Its Own Terms
Author: Fairfield Porter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
"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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
"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.
Rackstraw Downes
Author: Klaus Ottmann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972-2008 is an important overview of the work and methods of this British-born 'realist' panoramic painter (b. 1939) who was given the MacArthur Fellowship genius award in 2009. Though primarily based in New York City, Downes has travelled widely and has created a significant number of landscape paintings on site including the harbour of Portland, Maine, and the Donald Judd structures in Marfa, Texas. Downes's panoramic paintings, which he developed by studying 17th-century Dutch panoramic landscape painting possess a unique balance between realism and abstraction, timelessness and history. Painted from observation, they are not "snapshots" of a scene recreated in the studio; rather, they are chronicles of the human experience-- records of social history as it evolves. The book also features a wide-ranging interview between the artist and Terrie Sultan, director of Parrish Art Museum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972-2008 is an important overview of the work and methods of this British-born 'realist' panoramic painter (b. 1939) who was given the MacArthur Fellowship genius award in 2009. Though primarily based in New York City, Downes has travelled widely and has created a significant number of landscape paintings on site including the harbour of Portland, Maine, and the Donald Judd structures in Marfa, Texas. Downes's panoramic paintings, which he developed by studying 17th-century Dutch panoramic landscape painting possess a unique balance between realism and abstraction, timelessness and history. Painted from observation, they are not "snapshots" of a scene recreated in the studio; rather, they are chronicles of the human experience-- records of social history as it evolves. The book also features a wide-ranging interview between the artist and Terrie Sultan, director of Parrish Art Museum