| Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Painting, 1972-2008 Contributor(s): Ottmann, Klaus (Author), Rothenberg, Sarah (Contribution by) |
|
 |
ISBN: 1904832733 ISBN-13: 9781904832737 Publisher: Giles OUR PRICE: $35.96 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Individual Artists - General - Art | History - Contemporary (1945- ) - Art | American - General |
| Dewey: 759.2 |
| LCCN: 2009042528 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 11" W x 9.5" (2.11 lbs) 112 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972-2008 is an important overview of the work and methods of this British-born 'realist' panoramic painter (b. 1939) who was given the MacArthur Fellowship genius award in 2009. Though primarily based in New York City, Downes has travelled widely and has created a significant number of landscape paintings on site including the harbour of Portland, Maine, and the Donald Judd structures in Marfa, Texas. Downes's panoramic paintings, which he developed by studying 17th-century Dutch panoramic landscape painting possess a unique balance between realism and abstraction, timelessness and history. Painted from observation, they are not snapshots of a scene recreated in the studio; rather, they are chronicles of the human experience-- records of social history as it evolves. The book also features a wide-ranging interview between the artist and Terrie Sultan, director of Parrish Art Museum |