The Imaginary Portraits of George Condo

Ralph Rugoff; George Condo

ISBN 10: 1576871177 / ISBN 13: 9781576871171

Published by powerHouse, 2002

About this Item

1st Printing of stated 1st Edition. Good+ book lacking DJ. Interior like new. Pages clean & unmarked with no rips or creases. Binding tight. Gray-cloth boards with white-stamped titles (faded on spine) are sturdy, but with damp stains on rear board. Quick, secure shipping with free delivery confirmation from Los Angeles bookstore. Photos available upon request. International shipping may be extra due to weight.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Imaginary Portraits of George Condo
• Publisher: powerHouse
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1576871177
• ISBN 13: 9781576871171
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Good+

About this title

Synopsis

Since the mid-1970s, George Condo has been painting portraits of people inhabiting his imagination. By transposing the techniques of the Italian Renaissance, Spanish Baroque, French Impressionism, Surrealism, 1950s Modernism, and Pop Art, Condo has created an original movement, which he calls Artificial Realism - the realistic representation of that which is artificial. In his first artist's monograph, The Imaginary Portraits of George Condo, the painter showcases an incredible selection of subjects - from Madonnas and Clowns to Metaphysical mannequins and Antipodular Beings - which had previously existed only on the periphery of his consciousness. Condo painted while on the move, and the imaginary characters were made manifest in hotel rooms during his travels throughout Europe. The result is a carnivalesque collection of creatures, the likes of which will most surely surprise, provoke, confuse, and delight.

About the Author

George Condo was born in 1957 in Concord, New Hampshire. He has been exhibiting his work in galleries around the world since the 1980s, and has work in major national and international museum collections, including The Museum Of Modern Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, all in New York; The Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Ministere de la Culture and the Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain, lle de France, Paris; and the Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona. Condo lives and works in New York City. Ralph Rugoff, author of the critically-acclaimed Scene Of The Crime (MIT Press), is a California-based art critic and journalist who writes regularly for Artforum and Frieze.