Description: Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 John T. Spike Fairfield Porter An American Classic Harry N. Abrams. New York. 1992. First edition Hardcover with the dust jacket. Profusely illustrated. A comprehensive reference on the life and work of this important American artist, including biography and catalogue raisonne. Includes a checklist of paintings by Fairfield Porter by Joan Ludman. Text includes, family, education, Europe, New York and Winnetica, Southampton, Art News and The Nation. Bibliography and index. With 280 illustrations, most of which are in color; the few in black and white are mainly the historical image. 320 pages. Very good plus in a very good dust plus jacket. Boards are clean with light wear. Sunning to the boards. Few small stains to the top fore edge. The dust jacket is complete with light wear. Sunning to the DJ spine and a small spot of sunning to the DJ back cover. Not price clipped. Interior clean. Prior owner bookplate to the first free endpaper. Hinges sound and binding tight. Light tanning to page edges. The best of a relatively small number of books on Fairfield Porter, generously illustrated and well researched. A very nice copy. Book Description Publication Date: 1992 Providing both authorized biography and artistic analysis, this book draws on previously unpublished correspondence to describe the emergence of the American artist Fairfield Porter as a figurative painter in the post-war decades of Abstract Expressionism who struggled to achieve recognition. Porter's work is significant for its quintessentially American subject matter, and the book presents 280 paintings, prints and drawings as a kind of autobiography, for the artist's subjects were always himself, his family and friends, and the places where he lived. Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly A figurative realist in the heyday of abstract expressionism, Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) shunned isms and continually broadened his approach, painting himself, his family and friends in New York City, in Southhampton, Long Island, and on an island off the Maine coast. An informative authorized biography and a critique of Porter's work, this lavishly illustrated monograph makes a case for Porter as a major American artist comparable to Pierre Bonnard in his subjective receptivity to people and events, a painter who caught the essence of each moment and never repeated himself. Spike, a specialist in Italian art, gives full consideration to Porter's gritty cityscapes of the 1930s, when he dabbled in radical political causes. From his friend Willem de Kooning, Porter learned to paint quickly and fearlessly, and from Bonnard and Vuillard, he was guided on his artistic course. Porter's airy, light-filled landscapes, interiors, portraits and crystalline ocean views are reproduced here in 280 plates, most of them in color. Copyright 1992 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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Binding: Hardcover w/Jacket
Subject: Art & Photography
Topic: Fine Arts: Monographs
Special Attributes: With Dust Jacket, 1st Edition, Illustrated
Origin: American
Year Printed: 1992
Country of Manufacture: United States
