Edwin Dickinson: Dreams and Realities - Hardcover

Dreishpoon, Douglas; Abell, Mary Ellen; O'Connor, Francis V.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555952143 ISBN 13: 9781555952143

Publisher: Hudson Hills, 2002

Synopsis

The current monograph of the artist's ambitious work, including his multi-figured and landscape compositions of enigmatic and fantastic subjects.

About this title

About the Author:

Dreishpoon is curator of 20th-century art at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and lives in Buffalo. Abell, assistant professor at Dowling College, Oakdale, New York, resides in New York City, as does O'Connor, an independent historian of American art.

From Library Journal:

Accompanying a retrospective traveling show on Dickinson (1891-1978), this is the first serious publication on the American quasi-realist and symbolist painter in two decades. Dickinson stood apart from much of the art of his time while teaching in New York City, Buffalo, and Cape Cod. He was admired by the abstract expressionists even though he did not reciprocate their feelings. His landscapes, self-portraits, large symbolist compositions, and drawings were created in various styles, but all draw from an alternative to the mainline modernist traditions. Essays by various curators and friends, among them artist Elaine de Kooning and poet John Ashbery, place Dickinson, his work, and his teaching in context in an accessible way. The book includes reproductions of the 68 paintings and 27 drawings included in the show, which was organized by Dreishpoon (curator, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY), along with photographic documentation of the artist's life. Recommended for American art collections.
Jack Perry Brown, Art Inst. of Chicago Libs.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Hudson Hills
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1555952143
• ISBN 13: 9781555952143
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288