Research Catalog

Title

Joe Zucker / John Elderfield ; essays by Terry R. Myers and Alex Bacon ; interview by Phong Bui.

Author

Zucker, Joe, 1941-

Publication

London ; New York, New York : Thames and Hudson, 2019.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Elderfield, John
• Myers, Terry R.
• Bacon, Alex

Description

255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 27 x 32 cm

Summary

The first comprehensive monograph on the art of Joe Zucker, this career-spanning survey deals with all the artist's various bodies of work, from his grid paintings of the 1960s to his latest work, including the monumental 1000 Brushstrokes (2015-2016). Zucker's art is rooted in a conceptual framework where tools, materials, processes, procedures, content, and subject matter are all interrelated. Working with materials ranging from cotton balls, sash cord, peg boards and squeegees to acrylic and rhoplex, and exploring such themes as the grid, the history of cotton, ancient civilizations, an assortment of "dubious characters," paintings that paint themselves, as well as meditations on the studio, Zucker merges materials, process, and content--abstract and otherwise--to produce compelling works of extraordinary inventiveness, irony, and passion.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

Works.

Subject

• Zucker, Joe, 1941-
• Artists > United States
• Artists
• United States
• Western United States Mixed Media/Collage, Painting Zucker, Joe

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-253).

Contents

Three sides of Joe Zucker, and his homemade aesthetics / John Elderfield -- Painting as [re]model : Joe Zucker's 100-foot-long piece says it's time for a change, again / Terry R. Myers -- Image and surface : Joe Zucker's painterly approach to process / Alex Bacon -- In the land of cotton - The ancient world : artchaic -- "Grid lock," or a bad case of the grids -- Dubious characters : the Golem, Beezel Bob, Blackbeard, Joseph Smith, Ponce de Leon -- Fish and fowl : feather and scale -- The seven seas -- Let's get ready to rumble -- The American heartland : Willa Catherized -- Process : paintings as tools that help make themselves -- Views from the houses of pain and pleasure -- Joe Zucker : excerpts from interviews with Phong Bui.

Call Number

JQG 20-570

ISBN

• 9780500239650
• 0500239657

LCCN

2017934767

OCLC

1127088062

Author

Zucker, Joe, 1941- artist.

Title

Joe Zucker / John Elderfield ; essays by Terry R. Myers and Alex Bacon ; interview by Phong Bui.

Publisher

London ; New York, New York : Thames and Hudson, 2019.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-253).

Indexed Term

Western United States Mixed Media/Collage, Painting Zucker, Joe

Added Author

Elderfield, John, contributor.

Myers, Terry R., contributor.

Bacon, Alex, contributor.

Research Call Number

JQG 20-570