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Rackstraw Downes

by Robert Storr, Sanford Schwartz, Rackstraw Downes
RM78.00 MYR Now RM41.00 MYR Save 47%
Rackstraw Downes
Rackstraw Downes

Realism meets grit in panoramic environmental art.

If you have an appreciation for the collision between day-to-day landscapes and fine art, Rackstraw Downes' book will resonate with you. It's not just a feast for the eyes but also a thought-provoker that challenges our perception of industrial and urban environments. You'll find yourself lost in the details and the surprising beauty of spaces you might usually ignore, guided by compelling commentary from both critics and the artist himself.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Rackstraw Downes

by Robert Storr, Sanford Schwartz, Rackstraw Downes
RM78.00 MYR Now RM41.00 MYR Save 47%
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ISBN: 9780691120478
Authors: Robert Storr, Sanford Schwartz, Rackstraw Downes
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date of Publication: 2005-05-08
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Art, Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: Memoir, Art Books Monographs, Art History, Art and Photography, Biography
Goodreads rating: 4.83
(rated by 12 readers)

Description

Rackstraw Downes paints down-to-earth, often gritty features of today's American environment in an unflinching and highly realistic style. This book is the first to provide a multifaceted picture of his work, its intellectual foundations, and its place in the history of art—from both outside commentators and Downes himself. Beautifully illustrated, with copious examples from thirty years of the artist's work, the book makes eminently clear why Downes is widely regarded as a "painter's painter." It showcases many of the artist's panoramic pictures—painted with a strong sense of place and a miniaturist's sense of scale. The images, which depict industrial parks, construction sites, housing projects, refineries, razor wire, and landfills, stimulate fresh thoughts about these supposedly unattractive sights. Bathed in the light of a precise time, the paintings resonate with a strikingly evocative quality. The three essays that accompany Downes's art provide rare insights into the way a painter thinks and works. Sanford Schwartz explores the relationships between the artist's personal and intellectual background and his oeuvre. Robert Storr situates Downes in the context of a number of highly prominent contemporary artists such as Chuck Close, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Jasper Johns, Gerhard Richter, and Robert Smithson in a way that offers a new interpretation of Downes's work, while making clear its importance within twentieth-century art. Downes
 

Realism meets grit in panoramic environmental art.

If you have an appreciation for the collision between day-to-day landscapes and fine art, Rackstraw Downes' book will resonate with you. It's not just a feast for the eyes but also a thought-provoker that challenges our perception of industrial and urban environments. You'll find yourself lost in the details and the surprising beauty of spaces you might usually ignore, guided by compelling commentary from both critics and the artist himself.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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