Research Catalog

Title

Bob Crewe : sight and sound : compositions in art and music / edited by Dan Crewe with essays by Donald Albrecht, Jessica May, Andrew Loog Oldham, and Peter Plagens.

Publication

• New York : Rizzoli Electa, 2021.
• ©2021

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Additional Authors

• Albrecht, Donald,
• Crewe, Bob.
• May, Jessica,
• Oldham, Andrew Loog,
• Plagens, Peter,

Description

239 pages : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

The first book to explore the extraordinary musical life and remarkable paintings of one of America's greatest ever songwriters. Best known for having written and produced some of the seminal records of American popular culture--from 'Big Girls Don't Cry' for the Four Seasons to 'Silence is Golden' for the Tremeloes and 'Lady Marmalade' for LaBelle--Bob Crewe was a multifaceted artist for whom a passion for painting and the visual arts provided a lifelong counterbalance to music. Collected here are more than 80 of Bob Crewe's artworks, stretching from his first forays into abstract expressionism in the 1950s and 1960s to more complex, tactile compositions made on his full-time return to painting in the 1990s--accompanied by archival images and ephemera that reflect Crewe's simultaneous contribution to popular music. Essays by Jessica May and Peter Plagens explore the development of an artist whose influences ranged from Rauschenberg and Johns to Warhol and Bacon; legendary record producer Andrew Loog Oldham captures the period of radical experimentalism in which Crewe wrote many of the most memorable songs in the canon of modern pop; and Donald Albrecht's introduction ties together the many complementary aspects of Crewe's personal and creative lives.

Subject

• Abstract expressionism
• Crewe, Bob
• Painting, American > 20th century

Call Number

N6537.C7342

ISBN

• 9780847869794
• 0847869792

LCCN

40030626681

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries