Richard Diebenkorn: The Sketchbooks Revealed - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804799172 ISBN 13: 9780804799171

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Throughout his long career, Richard Diebenkorn always kept a sketchbook―a portable studio, as he called it―to capture his ideas. Scattered across these books are deeply personal sketches of his wife and studies of the human figure, grand landscape studies, and evidence of the development and maturation of Diebenkorn's signature approaches to figuration and abstraction. Taken together, these sketchbooks offer a nearly complete look at his career, from his twenties to the years just before his death at age seventy. He added to these sketchbooks throughout his life, routinely putting one down only to pick it up again years later, and their improvised nature ensures that each turn of the page offers a surprise. Richard Diebenkorn: The Sketchbooks Revealed provides a unique look into this previously inaccessible trove of images. All twenty-nine sketchbooks are represented, including one reproduced in its entirety. More than 500 full color images show off stunning gestural sketches and glimpses of the artist's lived experiences. Essays by Enrique Chagoya, Alexander Nemerov, Peggy Phelan, and Steven A. Nash offer insights in to the artist's career, working process, and the visual dialogues Diebenkorn forged with fellow artists past and present. And Gretchen Diebenkorn Grant contributes a remembrance of her father and his artistry. This extraordinary collection of Richard Diebenkorn's sketches is unprecedented in displaying an artist's process, and through the collection we can better understand Diebenkorn's style of working. Presented together in this book, the sketchbooks become a revelation of sorts, offering intimate access to the practice of a well-known, important, and prolific artist.

About this title

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This book is published to accompany an exhibition of the sketchbooks at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. The Cantor Arts Center offers a collection of more than 45,000 objects spanning 5,000 years, from Africa to the Americas to Asia, from classical antiquity to the contemporary moment. With twenty-four galleries and more than twenty special exhibitions each year, the Cantor attracts audiences of all ages and backgrounds and welcomes nearly 260,000 visitors annually.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0804799172
• ISBN 13: 9780804799171
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Arts Center Cantor