Author: Susan Landauer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520239388
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
"Presenting, interpreting, and celebrating the world-renowned and the lesser-known California artists who have uniquely defined and redefined the still life, this volume offers an exploration of the sensual pleasures, the aesthetic challenges, and the intellectual and perceptual associations of a century of art through the prism of a single genre."--BOOK JACKET.
The Not-So-Still Life
Author: Susan Landauer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520239388
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
"Presenting, interpreting, and celebrating the world-renowned and the lesser-known California artists who have uniquely defined and redefined the still life, this volume offers an exploration of the sensual pleasures, the aesthetic challenges, and the intellectual and perceptual associations of a century of art through the prism of a single genre."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520239388
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
"Presenting, interpreting, and celebrating the world-renowned and the lesser-known California artists who have uniquely defined and redefined the still life, this volume offers an exploration of the sensual pleasures, the aesthetic challenges, and the intellectual and perceptual associations of a century of art through the prism of a single genre."--BOOK JACKET.
Full Spectrum
Author: Scott A. Shields
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781884038280
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Full Spectrum: Paintings by Raimonds Staprans is the most extensive survey of the figures, landscapes and still lifes of Latvian-American painter Raimonds Staprans (born 1926). Published by the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, the book accompanies the museum's exhibition of the same name. Elegant design and superb reproductions reveal Staprans as a master of composition, color and existential nuance. Essayists include Scott A. Shields, Crocker Art Museum Associate Director and Chief Curator; Paul J. Karlstrom, art historian and former West Coast regional director of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art; David Pagel, art critic for the Los Angeles Times and Professor of Art Theory and History at Claremont Graduate University; Nancy Princenthal, author and former senior editor at Art in America; Ed Schad, Associate Curator at The Broad; and John Yau, art critic and poet.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781884038280
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Full Spectrum: Paintings by Raimonds Staprans is the most extensive survey of the figures, landscapes and still lifes of Latvian-American painter Raimonds Staprans (born 1926). Published by the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, the book accompanies the museum's exhibition of the same name. Elegant design and superb reproductions reveal Staprans as a master of composition, color and existential nuance. Essayists include Scott A. Shields, Crocker Art Museum Associate Director and Chief Curator; Paul J. Karlstrom, art historian and former West Coast regional director of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art; David Pagel, art critic for the Los Angeles Times and Professor of Art Theory and History at Claremont Graduate University; Nancy Princenthal, author and former senior editor at Art in America; Ed Schad, Associate Curator at The Broad; and John Yau, art critic and poet.
Reading California
Author: Stephanie Barron
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520227675
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
This collection of essays written by a stellar cast of art historians and scholars looks closely at the forces that shaped fine art and material culture in California. Illustrations.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520227675
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
This collection of essays written by a stellar cast of art historians and scholars looks closely at the forces that shaped fine art and material culture in California. Illustrations.
At Home Pasadena
Author: Jill Alison Ganon
Publisher: Prospect Park Publishing
ISBN: 0975393936
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
A richly photographed book showcasing the most beautiful, creative, and/or interesting homes and gardens in a city famous for them.
Publisher: Prospect Park Publishing
ISBN: 0975393936
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
A richly photographed book showcasing the most beautiful, creative, and/or interesting homes and gardens in a city famous for them.
Selections
Author: San Jose Museum of Art
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Art of Engagement
Author: Peter Selz
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520240529
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
'Art of Engagement' focuses on the key role of California's art and artists in politics and culture since 1945. The book showcases many types of media, including photographs, found objects, drawings and prints, murals, painting, sculpture, ceramics, installations, performance art, and collage.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520240529
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
'Art of Engagement' focuses on the key role of California's art and artists in politics and culture since 1945. The book showcases many types of media, including photographs, found objects, drawings and prints, murals, painting, sculpture, ceramics, installations, performance art, and collage.
Raimonds Staprans
Author: Paul J. Karlstrom
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780295985848
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 1947 the young Raimonds Staprans emigrated with his family from Latvia to America, and for the past half century the artist and playwright has lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area. In Raimonds Staprans: Art of Tranquility and Turbulence, Paul Karlstrom investigates the realism and abstraction in Staprans's work, focusing on the more edgy and self-revealing paintings by bringing the artist's life experience and personal psychology prominently into the equation. Karlstrom recognizes that the meaning of Staprans's work cannot be understood solely in terms of the painterly skill and aesthetic beauty that characterize the landscapes, marines, and still lifes. Neither can it be fully appreciated in the minimalist abstraction with which Staprans qualifies his realism. Rather, the key to understanding is hidden in the secret life and philosophical preoccupation that emerged in the author's interviews with the artist.Two prominent writers provide brief essays dealing with Staprans as a "trans-Atlanticist": Latvian cultural critic Helena Demakova brings the perspective of the artist's native country to his American émigré story. American art historian Peter Selz examines realism's rich modernist potential in Staprans and other artists who have pushed realism to discover new conceptual and aesthetic truths.Staprans is also a writer, known in Latvia mainly for his work for the stage, and excerpts from his writings provide insight into his painting.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780295985848
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 1947 the young Raimonds Staprans emigrated with his family from Latvia to America, and for the past half century the artist and playwright has lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area. In Raimonds Staprans: Art of Tranquility and Turbulence, Paul Karlstrom investigates the realism and abstraction in Staprans's work, focusing on the more edgy and self-revealing paintings by bringing the artist's life experience and personal psychology prominently into the equation. Karlstrom recognizes that the meaning of Staprans's work cannot be understood solely in terms of the painterly skill and aesthetic beauty that characterize the landscapes, marines, and still lifes. Neither can it be fully appreciated in the minimalist abstraction with which Staprans qualifies his realism. Rather, the key to understanding is hidden in the secret life and philosophical preoccupation that emerged in the author's interviews with the artist.Two prominent writers provide brief essays dealing with Staprans as a "trans-Atlanticist": Latvian cultural critic Helena Demakova brings the perspective of the artist's native country to his American émigré story. American art historian Peter Selz examines realism's rich modernist potential in Staprans and other artists who have pushed realism to discover new conceptual and aesthetic truths.Staprans is also a writer, known in Latvia mainly for his work for the stage, and excerpts from his writings provide insight into his painting.
Commencement
Author: University of California, Berkeley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Art in America
Author: Frank Jewett Mather
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description