Ivan Albright - Softcover

Courtney Graham Donnell; Susan S. Weininger; Robert Cozzolino

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865591423 ISBN 13: 9780865591424

Publisher: Art Institute of Chicago / Hudson Hills Press, 1998

Synopsis

This is the first paperback edition of the centennial monograph about a unique American artist who depicted the vulnerability of human life and the inevitable decay in all things in such masterworks as Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida and the horrifying portrait created for Hollywood's Picture of Dorian Gray.

About this title

From Booklist:

It's a commonplace to say that artists are unique, but Ivan Albright (1897^-1983) is truly in a class by himself. An influential and successful Chicago artist, he possessed a "singular vision," according to Courtney Graham Donnell, a contributor to this well produced volume. A master technician, Albright created meticulously detailed paintings, sculpted, carved his own frames, and devised a number of innovative techniques to explore his fascination with perception. A positive, energetic, and fun-loving man, he nonetheless painted dark and troubling portraits that focus, unnervingly, on decay, aging, and death. Albright wrote, "The body is our tomb," and admitted that he liked to make viewers uncomfortable by challenging their notions of art, beauty, and life. An artist with the unusual distinction of having one of his paintings star in a film, his Portrait of Dorian Gray (1943), Albright should be better known, and, with this outstanding monograph accompanying the striking exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, he will be. Donna Seaman

About this edition

• Publisher: Art Institute of Chicago / Hudson Hills Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0865591423
• ISBN 13: 9780865591424
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Susan F. Rossen