Grace Hartigan: a Painter's World.GRACE HARTIGAN: A PAINTER'S WORLD. Robert Saltonstall Mattison. New York: Hudson Hills Press, Inc., 1990. Illustrated, 156 pp., hardbound hard·bound adj. & n. Hardcover. Adj. 1. hardbound - having a hard back or cover; "hardback books" hardback, hardbacked, hardcover backed - having a back or backing, usually of a specified type , $50.00. Sixty-four colorplates plus forty black-and-white illustrations make this a visually exciting book about one of the most dynamic personalities of the New York School New York school Painters who participated in the development of contemporary art, particularly Abstract Expressionism, in or around New York City in the 1940s and '50s. of the 1950s. Grace Hartigan appropriated Arthur Rimbaud's term "mad laughter" to describe her painting style ... an appropriate descriptor (1) A word or phrase that identifies a document in an indexed information retrieval system. (2) A category name used to identify data. (operating system) descriptor for her colorful, usually figurative, and often "kitsch" influenced works. While the illustrations illuminate the book with bold color and brushwork brush·work n. 1. Work done with a brush. 2. The manner in which a painter applies paint with a brush. brushwork Noun , the text provides a fascinating autobiographical glimpse into the artist's friendships with Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Franz Kline and her involvement with cultural figures such as poet Frank O'Hara. The book documents a career that concerns relationships between past art, modernism and abstract-expressionism as well as her anticipation of post-modernism and neo expressionism. An interesting recapitulation recapitulation, theory, stated as the biogenetic law by E. H. Haeckel, that the embryological development of the individual repeats the stages in the evolutionary development of the species. of an important contemporary artist. |
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