Ross Bleckner - Hardcover

Dennison, Lisa; Crow, Tom; Watney, Simon; Liebmann, Lisa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810968800 ISBN 13: 9780810968806

Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1995

Synopsis

This monograph, the first devoted to the important New York-based painter Ross Bleckner, is published on the occasion of a mid-career retrospective organized by the Guggenheim Museum. In the 1980s, Bleckner emerged as a central figure in the revival of American painting, a position he has solidified in the 1990s. Through various subjects and motifs - optically dizzying stripes, nocturnal landscapes, funerary urns, memorial imagery, chandeliers, abstract domes, and constellations - Bleckner evokes memory, desire, and irony in order to examine the uncertainty of the human condition, while simultaneously celebrating the transcendent principles of nature and the cosmos.
Produced in collaboration with the artist, this book captures the beauty and presence of Bleckner's paintings through oversized, vividly realized reproductions. It also provides the first major scholarly appreciation of the artist's work.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0810968800
• ISBN 13: 9780810968806
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250