
Tom Slaughter (Blue Cover)
The Artist Book Foundation (Publisher)
Published on 18. October 2019
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-1-7329864-1-1 (ISBN)
Description
Glenn Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art, reveals Slaughter as a treasured friend whose artistry was fuelled by endless curiosity about life's simple pleasures, a man who made his innumerable friends and acquaintances part of his personal community. Slaughter's lifelong friend, actor and writer David Marshall Grant, remembers the artist's delight when, in a high school art class, he was introduced to the mysteries of negative space and the enigmatic power it brings to an artwork. Artist, art critic, and independent curator Andy Fabo describes his friend's vibrant art as all about pleasure. Even in the most turbulent of times, he took a celebratory approach to his art, offering his viewers a sensual and visual delight. For Jon Robin Baitz, playwright and screenwriter, the 'sweetness' of Slaughter's images was insistent, a compulsive scrutinising of the visual world of small domesticities. Marthe Jocelyn, the artist's former wife and a children's book author and illustrator, reflects on the couple's acclaimed collaboration on a series of books for the very youngest readers. Jim Kempner, gallery owner, recalls Slaughter as a man of charm and enormous artistic talent who always managed to retain a childlike innocence. Artist George Negroponte remembers Slaughter as focusing on the life around him, especially his daughters, in a unique mixture of everyday images, abstracted yet conveying popular culture. And in an interview both informative and poignant, Slaughters' friends, artists Stephen Hannock, Jean-Paul Russell, Robert Harms, Ray Charles White, and Scott Kilgour pay tribute to a dear friend whose prolific career, though cut short, was remarkable for a visual language that makes his art accessible to everyone.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
297 colour, 10 b&w
Dimensions
Height: 301 mm
Width: 275 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
2074 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7329864-1-1 (9781732986411)
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12/2023
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Persons
Glenn Lowry is an American art historian and the director of the Museum of Modern Art. David Marshall Grant is an actor, singer, and writer. George Negroponte is an artist with works in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Marthe Jocelyn is an award-winning author and illustrator of over 20 books. Anne Pasternak is an art critic, curator, and the director of the Brooklyn Museum.
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Content
Contents: FOREWORD by Glenn Lowry; INTRODUCING TOM SLAUGHTER by Hannah and Nell Jocelyn; THE NEGATIVE SPACE by David Marshall Grant 1980-1990; THE OBJECT MAKER by George Negroponte 1990-1998; EVERY SUMMER by Marthe Jocelyn 1998-2005; OBJECTS: LOOK AND REALLY SEE by Anne Pasternak 2005-2014; UNMISTAKABLY HIS Interview with Stephen Hannock, Jean-Paul Russell, Robert Harms, Ray Charles White, and Scott Kilgour; LIST OF PLATES; CHRONOLOGY; SELECTED PUBLICATIONS - Children's Books, Artists' Books, Print Series, Catalogues, Books and Magazines; SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS; SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS; SELECTED PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS; PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.