The Not-So-Still Life
A Century of California Painting and Sculpture
1st Edition
Published on 10. November 2003
Book
Hardback
237 pages
978-0-520-23937-1 (ISBN)
Description
In informative illustrated essays this text traces the great variety of media and forms California artists have engaged as they have moved the still life not just off the table, but off the wall and into three dimensions during the 20th century.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
115 color illustrations, 56 b-w photographs
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
1361 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-23937-1 (9780520239371)
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Persons
Susan Landauer is Chief Curator at the San Jose Museum of Art and author of Elmer Bischoff: The Ethics of Paint (California, 2001), San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism (California, 1996), and California Impressionists (California, 1996). William H. Gerdts is Professor Emeritus of the Graduate School at the City University of New York. He has published extensively on American Impressionism. Patricia Trenton is the author of Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945 (California, 1995).
Content
Director's Foreword Daniel T. Keegan Introduction Susan Landauer Making Arrangements: California Still-life Painting at the Time of the Impressionists William H. Gerdts Before the World Moved In: Early Modernist Still Life in California, 1920-1950 Patricia Trenton The Not-So-Still Life: A Survey of the Genre in California, 1950-2000 Susan Landauer Artists' Biographies Ann M. Wolfe Notes Bibliography Index