ISBN10: 0520068424, ISBN13: 9780520068421, [publisher: Univ of California Pr] Softcover 231 pages. 12.00x9.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1990]

ISBN10: 0520068424, ISBN13: 9780520068421, [publisher: University of California Press, Berkerley] Softcover Paperback. During the 1950s a few painters in the San Francisco Bay Area began to stage personal, dramatic defections from the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism, creating what would come to be known as Bay Area Figurative Art. In 1949 David Park destroyed many of his nonobjective canvases and began a new style of consciously naive figuration. Soon Elmer Bischoff and Richard Diebenkorn joined Park and other painters such as Nathan Oliveira, Theophilus Brown, James Weeks, and Paul Wonner in the move away from abstraction and toward figurative subject matter. When artists such as Bruce McGaw, Manuel Neri, and Joan Brown emerged as a second generation of figurative artists, the momentum grew for a powerful new development in American painting.The achievement of Bay Area Figurative painters and sculptors has become directly relevant to current debates regarding abstraction and representation, as well as to discourses on modernism and postmodernism. Indeed, the historical phenomenon of the movement is an important case study in the evolution of modernism in America, serving as an early example of rupture in the formalist "mainstream."Bay Area Figurative Art 1950-1965 was written to accompany an exhibition of the same name at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Based on extensive archival research and interviews, it is the first study of the ...
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ISBN10: 0520068424, ISBN13: 9780520068421, [publisher: University of California Press] Softcover New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2.38
[North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1989]

University of California Press, Date: 1989-12-13. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1989. University of California Press ISBN 0520068424 9780520068421 [US]

University of California Press. Collectible - Very Good. Berkeley, Los Angeles and Oxford: San Franciso Museum of Art / University of California Press, 1990. 1st printing. 4to paperback. 231pp. Illustrations. Very Good book. (Art, Exhibition Catalog, Figurative Art) Inquire if you need further information. University of California Press ISBN 0520068424 9780520068421 [US]

ISBN10: 0520068424, ISBN13: 9780520068421, [publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley] Hardcover First Edition First edition. 4to. 231 pp. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Blue cloth. Slightest sunning to extremities of boards. Subtle shelfwear to jacket, one small chip to bottom of spine.
[Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1990]
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