Pure Genius: The Art and Mind of Peter Schwarzburg - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0976912708 ISBN 13: 9780976912705

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This book, the first monograph on the art of Peter Schwarzburg, includes a selection of thirty-two of his works, spanning an artistic life of some sixty years. In an engaging and provocative essay, Neil Chassman weaves in vignette format a mesmerizing account of Peter’s painting, drawing and, in particular, his unforgettable use of line and color, invariably resulting in a powerfully poetic composition and inner structure.

Set in the backdrop of New York and its famous art museums and galleries, restaurants and cafes, and Central Park; the alluring Lake George region of New York state; the breathtaking landscapes of Montauk and City Island; and the memorable mountains and meadows of Virginia’s Blue Ridge – one cannot read this book without becoming thoroughly engaged by the fascinating mind and intellect of a "pure genius," within the milieu of a great creative friendship.

What happens when two highly intellectual minds strike up a sustained forty-three year long friendship, begun in 1959, and center it around art, thought, and food? One is an art historian and art theorist; the other, his professor of philosophy and psychology, a "Renaissance man" and an extraordinary artist. The result is "Pure Genius: The Art and Mind of Peter Schwarzburg."

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Neil Chassman grew up on Manhattan's Central Park West and in Scarsdale, New York, and has traveled, taught, and lectured throughout the U.S. and abroad. He was chairman, Department of Art History, Southern Methodist University; chairman, Department of Art and Art History, Western Illinois University; and Visiting Senior Professor, Brisbane College, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Chassman has published on Josef Albers (Albers, "The Art Museum," Princeton University, 1971), and developed and curated the ground-breaking collaborative exhibition and publication "Poets of the Cities: New York and San Francisco, 1950-65" for the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts and Southern Methodist University, which then traveled to the San Francisco Museum of Art and the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut.

Over the years, Chassman has written numerous art catalogues, conducted poetry readings, and continues to critique exhibitions throughout the Hudson Valley region. He received his degrees from University of Michigan/CCNY, The New School, University of Arizona, Princeton University, and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to the Far East.

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• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0976912708
• ISBN 13: 9780976912705
• Einband: Taschenbuch
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