| Beauty Reigns: A Baroque Sensibility in Recent Painting Contributor(s): Barilleaux, Rene Paul (Introduction by), Westfall, Stephen (Text by (Art, Photo Books)), Wei, Lilly (Text by (Art, Photo Books)) |
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ISBN: 0615864511 ISBN-13: 9780615864518 Publisher: Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Group Shows - Art | History - General |
| Dewey: 759.070 |
| LCCN: 2013050221 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 8.6" W x 11.9" (2.30 lbs) 144 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Beauty Reigns: A Baroque Sensibility in Recent Painting assembles the work of 13 emerging and mid-career abstract painters--Jose Alvarez, Kamrooz Aram, Charles Burwell, Annette Davidek, Fausto Fernandez, Nancy Lorenz, Ryan McGinness, Beatriz Milhazes, Jiha Moon, Paul Henry Ramirez, Rex Ray, Rosalyn Schwartz and Susan Chrysler White--whose art is characterized by high-key color, obsessive layering of surface imagery, repeated patterns, stylized motifs and a tension between melancholy and the sublime. It builds directly on Barilleaux's award-winning exhibition and book New Image Sculpture, which examined how contemporary artists transform widely available, often non-art materials into fanciful replications of the ordinary. Beauty Reigns identifies a recent trend towards exoticism, exuberance and optimism. |