John McCracken: Works from 1963-2011 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook John McCracken: Works from 1963-2011 write by John McCracken. This book was released on 2014-11-30. John McCracken: Works from 1963-2011 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. John McCracken occupies a singular position within the recent history of American art, as his work melds the restrained formal qualities of Minimalist sculpture with a distinctly West Coast sensibility expressed through color, form, and finish. He developed his early sculptural work while studying painting at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland in the late 1950s and early 1960s. While experimenting with increasingly three-dimensional canvases, the artist began to produce objects made with industrial materials, including plywood, sprayed lacquer and pigmented resin, creating the highly reflective, smooth surfaces that he was to become known for. Published on the occasion of the comprehensive presentation of McCracken's work at David Zwirner, New York in 2013, this catalogue charts the evolution of the artist's diverse oeuvre, encompassing both well-known and lesser-seen examples of his production from the early 1960s up through his death in 2011 with a range of sculptures, paintings, and sketches. Featuring new scholarship by art historian Robin Clark, it includes reproductions of fascinating archival and documentary material that was discovered during the curatorial process, from the artist’s sketches to gallery invitation cards, early catalogue covers, historic photographs, as well as installation views of the exhibition.
Made in Los Angeles
Made in Los Angeles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Made in Los Angeles write by Rachel Rivenc. This book was released on 2016-04-01. Made in Los Angeles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the 1960s, a group of Los Angeles artists fashioned a body of work that has come to be known as the “LA Look” or West Coast Minimalism. Its distinct aesthetic is characterized by clean lines, simple shapes, and pristine reflective or translucent surfaces, and often by the use of bright, seductive colors. While the role of materials and processes in the advent of these truly indigenous Los Angeles art forms has often been commented on, it has never been studied in depth — until now. Made in Los Angeles focuses on four pioneers of West Coast Minimalism — Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman, and John McCracken — whose working methods, often borrowed from other industries, featured the use of synthetic paints and resins as well as industrial processes to create objects that are both painting and sculpture. Bell, for example, coated plate glass with films of material that alter the way the light is absorbed, reflected, and transmitted, while Kauffman employed a process usually reserved for commercial signs for his work. McCracken coated plywood with fiberglass then spray painted it with countless layers of automotive paints, and Irwin spray-painted discs of hammered aluminum or vacuum-formed plastics. The detailed study of each artist’s work is presented in the context of the emergence of modern art in Los Angeles, the burgeoning mid-twentieth-century gallery scene, and the light-infused LA cityscape. Initially undertaken as part of the Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A.1945–1980 initiative, this volume combines technical art history and scientific analysis to investigate conservation issues associated with the work of these artists, which are often emblematic of issues in the conservation of contemporary art in general.
John McCracken
John McCracken - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook John McCracken write by John McCracken. This book was released on 1995. John McCracken available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Arise Sir Tom Jones
Arise Sir Tom Jones - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arise Sir Tom Jones write by Gwen Russell. This book was released on 2007. Arise Sir Tom Jones available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From selling vacuum cleaners door-to-door to sell-out Las Vegas shows, Tom Jones is Britain's best-loved singer-songwriter. Having received the ultimate accolade - a knighthood from the Queen - this comprehensive biography celebrates Tom's remarkable career and aims to reveal the man behind the icon.
John McCracken
John McCracken - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook John McCracken write by Daniel Baumann. This book was released on 2011. John McCracken available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The first complete catalog on John McCracken's work, including critical essays, an interview with the artist, and a chronology detailing his long career. This catalog presents fifty historic works beginning from the 1960s which have rarely been shown in public. McCracken was an internationally famous American artist, known for his unusual and visionary approach to trends in the Minimalism and Finish Fetish art movements which developed in the United States at the beginning of the 1960s. He made "minimalist, spiritual, enigmatic, irresistibly beautiful" sculptures and paintings. McCracken is known principally for what he defines as "blocks, slabs, columns, planks. Basic, beautiful forms, neutral forms." The starting point for such "neutral forms" is the minimalist object or primary structure such as the cube or plank. Made in plywood and then covered in fibreglass and polyester resin and lacquered in bold colours, the neutral forms transform into objects that knowingly bring together Minimal Art trends with the colours of the automobile industry and the idea of a mental and immaterial space. McCracken, while famous mainly for his minimalist sculptures, also completed his rarely-seen Mandala cycle of paintings in the 1970's. These will also be included inthis retrospective."--Publisher's website.
