Author: Scott A. Shields
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ISBN: 9781884038280
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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Full Spectrum: Paintings by Raimonds Staprans is the most extensive survey of the figures, landscapes and still lifes of Latvian-American painter Raimonds Staprans (born 1926). Published by the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, the book accompanies the museum's exhibition of the same name. Elegant design and superb reproductions reveal Staprans as a master of composition, color and existential nuance. Essayists include Scott A. Shields, Crocker Art Museum Associate Director and Chief Curator; Paul J. Karlstrom, art historian and former West Coast regional director of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art; David Pagel, art critic for the Los Angeles Times and Professor of Art Theory and History at Claremont Graduate University; Nancy Princenthal, author and former senior editor at Art in America; Ed Schad, Associate Curator at The Broad; and John Yau, art critic and poet.
Author: Paul J. Karlstrom
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ISBN: 9780295985848
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In 1947 the young Raimonds Staprans emigrated with his family from Latvia to America, and for the past half century the artist and playwright has lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area. In Raimonds Staprans: Art of Tranquility and Turbulence, Paul Karlstrom investigates the realism and abstraction in Staprans's work, focusing on the more edgy and self-revealing paintings by bringing the artist's life experience and personal psychology prominently into the equation. Karlstrom recognizes that the meaning of Staprans's work cannot be understood solely in terms of the painterly skill and aesthetic beauty that characterize the landscapes, marines, and still lifes. Neither can it be fully appreciated in the minimalist abstraction with which Staprans qualifies his realism. Rather, the key to understanding is hidden in the secret life and philosophical preoccupation that emerged in the author's interviews with the artist.Two prominent writers provide brief essays dealing with Staprans as a "trans-Atlanticist": Latvian cultural critic Helena Demakova brings the perspective of the artist's native country to his American émigré story. American art historian Peter Selz examines realism's rich modernist potential in Staprans and other artists who have pushed realism to discover new conceptual and aesthetic truths.Staprans is also a writer, known in Latvia mainly for his work for the stage, and excerpts from his writings provide insight into his painting.
Author: Raimonds Staprāns
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ISBN: 9780974117331
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Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Author: Raimonds Staprāns
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Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Author: Susan Landauer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520239388
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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"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.
Author: Raimonds Staprāns
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ISBN: 9780967546940
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Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Author: Raimonds Staprāns
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Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Author: Raimonds Staprāns
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Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Author: Raimonds Staprāns
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Languages : en
Pages : 15
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Author: Raimonds Staprāns
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ISBN: 9780981874913
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Languages : en
Pages : 34
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