9783944874722-3944874722-James Bishop: Paintings on paper Malerei auf Papier

James Bishop: Paintings on paper Malerei auf Papier

ISBN-13: 9783944874722
ISBN-10: 3944874722
Edition: Bilingual
Author: Michael Semff, Gianfranco Verna
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Sieveking
Format: Hardcover 160 pages
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ISBN-13: 9783944874722
ISBN-10: 3944874722
Edition: Bilingual
Author: Michael Semff, Gianfranco Verna
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Sieveking
Format: Hardcover 160 pages

Summary

James Bishop: Paintings on paper Malerei auf Papier (ISBN-13: 9783944874722 and ISBN-10: 3944874722), written by authors Michael Semff, Gianfranco Verna, was published by Sieveking in 2018. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other Monographs (Individual Artists, Arts Collections, History, Arts History & Criticism) books. You can easily purchase or rent James Bishop: Paintings on paper Malerei auf Papier (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Monographs books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.85.

Description

• In-depth look at James Bishop's outstanding oeuvre: poetic, abstract paintings on paper

• The art critic John Ashbery very aptly describes Bishop's work as "half architecture, half air"

James Bishop can be called the only real painter of his generation still alive. He has developed a unique, poetic, and sensitive visual vocabulary, and describes himself as "an Abstract Expressionist of the quieter kind." Bishop likes to have his art speak for him, as he believes it has a language of its own: "Artists should neither be seen nor heard, with the exception of opera singers, of course." Although Bishop began his career with stronger colors on large canvases, which speak for themselves, he soon turned to earth tones, and then later grays in square, mostly unmodified, smaller formats. This tendency toward reduction has remained constant from the 1960s until just recently, especially with regard to individual works on paper. Bishop has been on a persistent search for an aesthetic balance among opposing factors: drawing and painting, opacity and transparence, two and three dimensions, open forms and simple tectonic elements. In his work he has succeeded in compellingly interweaving these opposing forces into a subtle tonal relationship, creating a miniature-like, intimate aura.

Text in English and German.

Contents: Emotional viewing - by Erich Franz; "Bishop's Expressiveness" by Molly Warnock; Biography; Exhibition List.

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