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by: Arthur C. Danto, Robert Enright
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 759.13
EAN: 9781580931953
ISBN: 1580931952
Label: Monacelli
Manufacturer: Monacelli
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: May 15, 2008
Publisher: Monacelli
Release Date: May 15, 2008
Sales Rank: 61701
Studio: Monacelli
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Eric Fischl emerged in the 1980s as one of America's most important figurative painters. His paintings, many of which show a single intense moment, compel the viewer to participate in a world of middle-class suburban ambiguity and drama. In Fischl's engaging distinctly American canvases, narrative, morality, sexuality, and psychology are preeminent.
This volume, an expanded edition of Eric Fischl 1970-2000, is the most comprehensive examination of this important contemporary painter. More than 250 works, selected in conjunction with the artist, present the full scope of Fischl's career: the formative work of the 1970s; the breakthrough paintings of the 1980s, including the controversial Sleepwalker and Bad Boy; and the mature work, often of a personal and contemplative nature, of the 1990s and 2000s. In his most recent paintings, Fischl has turned to multipiece cycles: The Bed, The Chair series, starting with The Philosopher's Chair; canvases inspired by trips to Italy and India; and the paintings—Fischl terms them 'narrative fictions'—of the 'Krefeld Project.' These engrossing images have been accomplished with a mastery that has been compared to that of Caravaggio.
The introduction, by philosopher and critic Arthur C. Danto, offers a perceptive study of Fischl's work over the course of four decades. Commentary drawn from interviews with the artist, conducted by noted writer Robert Enright, accompanies the paintings. Finally, a witty and personal afterword by Steve Martin, best known as a gifted comic actor and author, but also an astute collector of modern art, discusses Barbeque, a famed Fischl painting from his private collection.
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Rating: - magneticisms
wonderful paintings herein, still the arbiter of what art should do, and the deepest place to do something,although with the vagaries of performance art and mixed photography within our sensibilities now, painting has become a recluse art;painters laways need to find a more extroverted aspect of their Being;Fischl however seems to have had a good run thus far; with suggestive narratives of desires of the flesh, the the act, cunninglingis capturing the attractions, the magnetisms in the air,as in ... Read More
Rating: - Superbly illustrated
This publication is an expanded edition of "Eric Fischl 1970-2000". In the opening essay Arthur C Danto helps us see the artist in context from his student days in the 1970s, when painting was almost an anathema, through his early work and to his notorious painting, "Sleepwalker", which brought him to the public's attention, and to his mature paintings. Selected paintings are discussed in more detail mainly with reference to their content and meaning. The discussion covers forty years of the artist's ... Read More
Rating: - Well Worth the Wait!
Fischl must be one of the world's greatest living figurative painters and this fantastic collection of his work has been well worth the long wait for publication. It's that rare thing in an art book, top quality reproduction of the artwork with decent sized plates on quality paper, a fairly informative text and not overflowing with the gibberish commentaries that plague many artist's monographs,
I first became aware of Fischl's work some fifteen to twenty years ago when I came upon a reproduction ... Read More
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