Life Lessons: The Art of Jerome Witkin - Softcover

Chayat, Sherry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0815608179 ISBN 13: 9780815608172

Verlag: Syracuse University Press, 2006

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Book by Chayat Sherry

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Críticas:

"Praise for Jerome Witkin... "Few artists today are able to do what Jerome Witkin can do with paint.... Witkin challenges us to extend and deepen our encounters with, and our perception of, reality." - The Christian Science Monitor "Witkin's only peer is Lucien Freud." - Kenneth Baker, art critic, San Francisco Chronicle "An indelible, pungent force.... A breakthrough in post-Cold War art." - The Los Angeles Times "Jerome Witkin charges the realism of his paintings with Action-Painting technique, tour-de-force draftsmanship and emotionally loaded narration." - Art in America "Dreams in the grand visionary manner of the Old Masters... painted with the rhapsodic abandon of pure sensation.... Unequivocal masterpieces." - Donald Kuspit, Art Historian "Perhaps the greatest figurative painter alive." - The Jewish Journal"

Reseña del editor:

Elucidates Witkin's success in rendering subjects in ways both immediate and powerfully universal. As a master of realism, Jerome Witkin illustrates in his art the moral plight of everyday lives. His most complex and critically acclaimed works - intense, often disturbing scenes of the Holocaust - have earned him a growing international audience. This second edition of "Life Lessons" incorporates material from the past decade, including ten of his most important and provocative paintings. It brings the viewer in intimate contact with the dense interior landscapes of both people and places. Often regarded as belonging to an artistic pantheon including the work of Lucien Freud, Manet, Ingres, Goya, and Courbet, Witkin's paintings range from moody urban landscapes and penetrating portraits to intimate figure studies and vivid, psychologically charged tableaux, frequently referencing seminal moments in history. Witkin's newer work includes an enormous six-panel exploration of Dachau's 1945 liberation ("Entering Darkness", 2001) - his culmination of a twenty-year series on the Holocaust, regarded by critics as among the most compelling of paintings made on the subject.

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• Verlag: Syracuse University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0815608179
• ISBN 13: 9780815608172
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 140