Philip Pearlstein: Drawings and Watercolors - Hardcover

Perreault, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810914964 ISBN 13: 9780810914964

Publisher: Harry Abrams, 1988

Synopsis

First edition bound in light blue cloth with gold lettering. 160 illustrations including 60 plates in color, 47 in sepia duotone and one gatefold. 4to size, 210 pp. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket.

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Pearlstein's coolly clinical studio nudes are recognizable by their bored, frustrated expressions, khaki skin, drooping mammaries, bodies cut off by the picture frame and genital regions calling attention to themselves. He has been a prominent realist since the 1960s, and Perreault, ex- Village Voice art critic, here claims Pearlstein as a major artist, the quintessential realist of our time. In his reverential essay, the author investigates how Pearlstein made his art deliberately nonexpressive, willfully renouncing narrative, psychology, symbol. We are left with purely formal qualities, said to make this painter's work "purer, more formal than abstract art." Most of the 160 images reproduced here have never before been published. Along with the nudes there are very ordinary studies of Roman ruins, Tintern Abbey and Stonehenge, plus an enormous 1986 watercolor of Jerusalem.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Harry Abrams
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810914964
• ISBN 13: 9780810914964
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 210