Claudio Bravo

Sullivan, Edward

ISBN 10: 0847806553 / ISBN 13: 9780847806553

Published by Rizzoli, New York, NY, 1985

About this Item

Presumed first edition. Printed and bound in Switzerland. Approx. 12.75 x 9.75 inches. Yellow buckram hardboards, with crisp blind-stamped lettering to the front board and spine. Unbumped spine head and tail, and sharp corners. Exceptionally clean binding. Text block firmly bound in and quite tight. With 140 numbered pages on matte stock, including detailed essays. With numerous full-color, full-page semi-glossy plates of paintings, variously tipped in and laid down. Also, approximately 24 duotone drawings are reproduced. An immensely clean interior. Attractive and fully intact pictorial dust jacket. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine DJ. 3 lbs. 6 oz. All in all, the book is a beautiful and careful production. Claudio Nelson Bravo Camus [1936-2011] was a Chilean hyperrealist painter. He was greatly influenced by Renaissance and Baroque artists, as well as Surrealist painters such as Salvador Dalí. He lived and worked in Tangier, Morocco, beginning in 1972. Bravo also lived in Chile, New York City and Spain.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Claudio Bravo
• Publisher: Rizzoli, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847806553
• ISBN 13: 9780847806553
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Bravo, Claudio
• Edition: Presumed First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Weight: 4.35 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • Latin American Art
  • Painting

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Synopsis

Book by Sullivan, Edward

Reviews

Even when he paints a New York street scene, Bravo's way of seeing and describing is steeped in 15th century Italian art. His best pictures are portraits imbued with Renaissance-like grace and precision. But they are outnumbered by works that are dull or trite, as they are displayed in this illustrated monograph by New York University teacher Sullivan. The Chilean-born artist, who settled in Madrid and is now based in Tangier, exhibits in museums and galleries despite a generally hostile critical press. His surrealistic juxtapositions of unusual and familiar objects are corny, and his photorealist renditions of soccer players, Arabs, rocks and male nudes seem lifeless. Bravo's direct reworkings of Baroque or Renaissance themes, as in Bacchanal and Temptation of St. Anthony, look more often stagy than convincing. He is most original when he depicts a graveyard with astonishing, almost loving clarity or shows a beach in intimate detail. His Infanta, a portrait of a nude hermaphrodite, outrages and amuses as it mocks Spain's royalty.
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