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Deborah Remington : a life in drawing / essays by John Mendelsohn and Lilly Wei.
Fine Arts Library N6537.R39 D43 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Remington, Deborah.
- Remington, Deborah--Criticism and interpretation.
- Drawing, American--20th century.
- Drawing, American.
- Drawing, Abstract--United States--20th century.
- Drawing, Abstract.
- Women artists--United States--20th century.
- Women artists.
- Painting, American--20th century.
- Painting, American.
- Pastel drawing--United States--20th century.
- Pastel drawing.
- Mixed media (Art)--United States--20th century.
- Mixed media (Art).
- Abstract expressionism--United States--20th century.
- Abstract expressionism.
- works on paper.
- geometric abstraction.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 95 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Life in drawing
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Deborah Remington Charitable Trust for the Visual Arts, [2016]
- Summary:
- "Deborah Remington: A Life in Drawing offers a long overdue opportunity to trace the artist's career as a draftsman through a chronological progression that parallesl her more familar iconic works on canvas. Most of these drawings have not been shown publically, thus providing a fresh overview of her work from its Abstract Expressionist roots during her student years at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco (1949-55) to the illusionistic geometry of the 1960s and '70s, followed by a return to a gestural abstraction in the 1980s, and, in the final decades of her life, a blending of explosive gesture with her unique kind of splintered geometry."-- Introduction.
- Deborah Remington (1930? 2010) emerged as an Abstract Expressionist in the late 1940s and 50s while attending the California School of Fine Arts where she studied with Clyfford Still, David Park and Elmer Bischoff. Following a sojourn in Japan to immerse herself in the study of calligraphy, she moved to New York in 1965, joining a thriving art scene that included Chuck Close, Brice Marden, Dorothea Rockburne and others. Drawing was a constant throughout her career, as it shifted from gestural abstraction to the more tightly structured geometric compositions that are her signature style. Her abstract language, with its luminous spatial permutations, bordering on the surreal, defies easy categorization. Today, with the general public accustomed to the disconcerting visual effects made possible by digital technology, this is an ideal moment to reconsider her work with its myriad complexities.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Margaret Mathews-Berenson
- Deborah Remington : a life in drawing / John Mendelsohn
- Drawing it out / Lilly Wei
- Plates
- Biography/Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Contains statements by Deborah Remington.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-93).
- Contains:
- Remington, Deborah. Drawings. Selections.
- ISBN:
- 9780692757857
- 0692757856
- OCLC:
- 962187271
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