Frank Moore: Between Life & Death - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0944092977 ISBN 13: 9780944092972

Publisher: Twin Palms Publishers, 2002

Synopsis

In 1977 Frank Moore took a freighter from Montreal to Santander, Spain. He traveled through Spain, France, and Morocco,finally settling in Paris, where he obtained a residency in the Cite des Arts. Upon his return to New York, Moore began a decade-long involvement with modern dance, theater, film, and video that paralleled his development as a painter. The increasing devastation of the AIDS crisis through the eighties profoundly and irrevocably transformed his life and work. His work was included in the 1995 Whitney Biennial and is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Albright Knox Art Gallery.

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Review:

Science and nature live in a sometimes indelicate balance in the rueful, sexual, and often disturbing work of American artist Frank Moore, who died in New York City in April 2002 on the cusp of worldwide acclaim. Between Life & Death is the breathtaking, oversized first monograph on the life's work of this artist who battled AIDS (and often the medical establishment) for 20 years.

Moore had a lifelong interest in art and science, but it was his exploration into surrealism while on a long residency in Paris that truly informed his art, allowing these divergent images to coexist so harmoniously. The increasing devastation of the worldwide AIDS crisis throughout the 1980s profoundly and irrevocably changed Moore's life as well as his work. Personal losses began to affect his work: health and ecology merged as a triumphant theme in most of these 73 paintings, many of which can be seen in some of the world's most important museums and galleries.

Beautifully designed and printed, Between Life & Death is a fitting tribute to this artist who both painted about his time and pointed to problems of our time. As Robert Glück writes in his foreword, "Wonder can be a form of activism. Moore develops a language of wonder, foursquare, wide-eyed. He paints his subjects with a highly controlled palette: the modulation of warm and cool blues. Mary's mantle is the blue of contemplation; Der Blaue Reiter is the blue of mystical nature; Miles Davis's Kind of Blue is a still lake of sound. I think Moore's blue is the color of our dear planet, our bright organism, a blue of compassion and wonder." --Charles Decker

About the Author:

Poet, fiction writer, editor, and New Narrative theorist Robert Gluck has served as director of San Francisco State's Poetry Center, codirector of the Small Press Traffic Literary Center, and editor for Lapis Press and the literary journal "Narrativity". He lives in San Francisco and is a Professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Twin Palms Publishers
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0944092977
• ISBN 13: 9780944092972
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112