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Matter + spirit : Stephen De Staebler

Title
Matter + spirit : Stephen De Staebler / edited by Timothy Anglin Burgard ; with essays by Rick Newby and Dore Ashton.
Author
De Staebler, Stephen, 1933-2011.
Publication
San Francisco, Calif. : Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ; Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2012.

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Additional Authors
  • Burgard, Timothy Anglin.
  • Newby, Rick.
  • Ashton, Dore.
  • M.H. de Young Memorial Museum.
  • Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Description
238 p. : ill. (some col.); 30 cm.
Summary
"Over the course of a fifty-year career, Stephen De Staebler (1933-2011) created powerful, elegiac figurative sculptures in clay and bronze. Extending and assimilating an artistic lineage that includes Michelangelo, Auguste Rodin, and Alberto Giacometti as well as the art of the ancient Americas, Egypt, and Greece, De Staebler developed a sculptural vocabulary uniquely his own. A resident of the San Francisco Bay Area since the late 1950s, De Staebler was among the first students of the legendary Peter Voulkos at the University of California, Berkeley. In conjunction with the Bay Area Figurative movement, De Staebler helped to infuse the existentialist agenda of Abstract Expressionism with a profound humanism. Illuminating the significance of De Staebler's practice as never before, curator Timothy Anglin Burgard analyzes the artist's major pieces. Poet and critic Rick Newby sketches a biographical portrait of the sculptor, and renowned art historian Dore Ashton offers a moving tribute to the artist, with whom she was a lifelong friend. Produced in collaboration with the artist and his estate, this authoritative volume--published on the occasion of a major exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco--offers an unprecedented glimpse into the sculptor's studio and process."--Publisher's website.
Alternative Title
  • Matter and spirit : Stephen De Staebler
  • Stephen De Staebler
Subject
De Staebler, Stephen, 1933-2011 > Exhibitions
Note
  • Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Matter and Spirit: The Sculpture of Stephen De Staebler" held at the De Young Museum, San Francisco, Calif., Jan. 14-Apr. 22, 2012.
  • "Edited by Leslie Dutcher ... index by Susan G. Burke."--Colophon.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-233) and index.
Contents
Stephen De Staebler: humanist sculptor in an Existentialist Age / Timothy Anglin Burgard -- Wrested from the earth: the life and art of Stephen De Staebler / Rick Newby -- The heart of the matter: a tribute to Stephen De Staebler / Dore Ashton -- Plates.
Call Number
JQF 12-829
ISBN
  • 0520272307 (hardcover)
  • 9780520272309 (hardcover)
  • 0520272315 (paperback)
  • 9780520272316 (paperback)
LCCN
2011936826
OCLC
756167058
Author
De Staebler, Stephen, 1933-2011.
Title
Matter + spirit : Stephen De Staebler / edited by Timothy Anglin Burgard ; with essays by Rick Newby and Dore Ashton.
Imprint
San Francisco, Calif. : Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ; Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2012.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-233) and index.
Added Author
Burgard, Timothy Anglin.
Newby, Rick.
Ashton, Dore.
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Research Call Number
JQF 12-829
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