Drawings and Digressions
Rivers, Larry with Carol Brightman
Published by Clarkson Potter Publishers, New York, NY, 1979
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Synopsis: Gathers drawings, including studies for major paintings, created by the author during the fifties, sixties, and seventies, and shares his comments on his art, influences, and life
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Title: Drawings and Digressions
Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers, New York, NY
Publication Date: 1979
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: First Edition.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. Dust Jacket Condition: very good +. First Edition. Foreword by John Ashbery. Introduction and Chronology by Carol Brightman. 4to. Teal cloth, with gilt spine titles. With tan end papers. With frontis color illustration by Larry Rivers. 264 pages, with List of Illustrations. With color and b/w illustrations throughout. No names or marks. In illustrated dust-jacket (with price intact). Due to size and weight, international shipping at cost. Seller Inventory # 3703
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Mint green cloth, lettered in gold foil, square format. As issued. Color illus. dust jacket very slightly tanned along spine panel and lightly rubbed at head of spine, now in mylar. 2nd ptg. 264 pp., 285 duotone illus. and photographs, 70 color. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 053951
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First edition. Mint condtion. Dust jacket protected by mylar. Seller Inventory # 000311
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Book Description hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. Larry Rivers (illustrator). First. Foreword by John Ashbery. 285 duotone illustrations and photographs, 70 in full color. Square 4to, green cloth, d.w. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., (1979). First edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. Seller Inventory # 230316
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Exceptionally nice copy in jacket. First edition, second printing. Foreword by John Ashbery; intro by Brightman. Freitag #8238. 263+[1] pages. 70 color & 215 b/w Illustrations. Seller Inventory # 00522392
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, Second Printing. Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., New York, 1979. Larry Rivers (illustrator). Foreword by John Ashbery. 285 duotone illustrations and photographs, 70 in full color. Square 4to, Fine cloth hardback, gilt lettering, green cloth. Book Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good with some mild wear to dj, some light scratching, two small nicks at top of DJ (2mm) light rubbing to dj edges. Colors are bright and clear; inner pages clean and bright. Large and Heavy Book: 10"x11". "For much of his career, Rivers was seen by observers and critics as a revolutionary deliberately opposing prevailing movements for the thrill of challenging the status quo. By now we can see Rivers' rebellious moves as those of a true innovator whose once subversive ideas have become part of the accepted repertoire of contemporary art." In connection with a 1999 exhibition at the Marlborough Gallery in New York City, the gallery quoted critic John Gruen, who wrote: "Early on, Rivers had developed a painting style he could call his own. It might be categorized as being semi-abstract, semi-realistic, pop-artish, post-romantic, or neo-classic. But whatever the label, it reflected (and still does) an untrammeled imagination, an extraordinary draughtsmanship,a color sense that has no truck with garishness or vulgarity, and an innate vitality that springs from Rivers' own restlessness and reflects itself with charged-up spontaneity, into whatever he paints." "A fascinating tour through the life and work of a vital figure of the NY school. Though in sympathy with the abstract expressionists, Rivers insisted on subject matter and followed his own vision to become one of the progenitors of pop. Drawings with commentary of his family newly emigrated from Russia, his friends from the jazz world and the legendary Cedar Tavern, his poet and writers friends : the beats, Kerouac and Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, J. Ashbery, K. Koch, the works done in collaboration with them, his dealers, his collectors, his patrons". larry Rivers helped to change the course of American art in the 1950s and '60s by doing the what was most radical, bringing the figure back to art. A post-Abstract Expressionist, Larry Rivers was one of the first artists to rebel against the pure abstraction and inject recognizable figurative subjects into his painting. He established a middle ground between abstraction and realism and combined blurred images with precise lines. Rivers is considered one of America's most important postwar artists. Sam Hunter wrote, " Larry Rivers is one of the most original, exuberant and irrepressible members of the New York School. In a career that spanned five decades, he generated a series of sharply memorable images, turning iconographic cliches into contemporary art. Whether creating paintings from iconographic art such as Washington Crossing the Delaware (1953) of a popular American History painting by Emanuel Leutze in 1850, or his Dutch Masters (1966) a play on Rembrandt's famous work or his play on the Henry Matisse La Danse, or from iconographic advertising such as the Dreyfus Lion, Rivers turned established art into POP ART, always done with tongue in cheek. Noted art historian Barbara Rose, wrote that Rivers was; "Heralded as the progenitor of Pop art, which he certainly was, in my view he was also the last great history painter." Rose continued, "The only subject Larry could not bring himself to satirize was the Holocaust, which inspired some of his most moving later works." Rivers is considered by many scholars to be the "Godfather" and "Grand Father" of Pop art. Pop artists Larry Rivers, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist and Andy Warhol, created art out of ephemeral materials, using topical events in the life of everyday America. Rivers, quintessential rebel in all things, was among the first to rebel against gesture-field, abstract expressionist, painting in order to develop his ow. Seller Inventory # 000502
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Book Description Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 263 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout. Green cloth covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Pieces of original dust jacket taped to front fly leaf. A very clean, tight copy. Record # 452858. Seller Inventory # 452858
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 264 pg. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. A complete study on Rivers' life and work to 1979. Richly illustrated with 285 duotone illustrations and photographs, with 70 in full color. First Edition. Seller Inventory # ABE-7477309122229142071
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Book Description Green Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. River, Larry (illustrator). Stated First. 264 pages; List of illustrations; 285 duotone illustrations and photographs, 70 in full color; "Larry Rivers is a very good draftsman by any standard, but, more than that, he is a man who lives through drawing. He draws his friends, his lovers, the banknote in his pocket and the package of cigarettes that he has just picked up at the tobacconist's, and he makes of these drawings a light-handed autobiography that is a joy to read." --John Russell, 'The New York Times' Owners name, city and date are written on the front flyleaf, and a short 6 line note below about first seeing this book. Seller Inventory # 003694
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