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Ellen Altfest : painting close-up / edited by Anthony Spira.

Title
Ellen Altfest : painting close-up / edited by Anthony Spira.
Author
Altfest, Ellen, 1970-
Publication
London : Occasional Papers, c2015.

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Additional Authors
  • Spira, Anthony
  • Milton Keynes Gallery.
Description
136 pages : color illustrations; 20 cm
Summary
Ellen Altfest is renowned for her intensely detailed, tightly cropped and small scale oil paintings of rocks, trees, plants, gourds and fragments of the male body. The sheer physical and mental attention invested in these paintings has left many commentators with a feeling of intense claustrophobia. Excessive and obsessive, Altfest's lines and strokes push realism to the edge of abstraction, a hallucinatory process not far from the expressionism of, for example, Jackson Pollock. Bringing together a broad range of perspectives by art historians, critics and curators, this book provides rare behind-the-scenes insight into the everyday processes behind her paintings. Exhibition: MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK (03.04-31.05.2015).
Alternative Title
Painting close-up
Subject
  • Altfest, Ellen, 1970- > Exhibitions
  • Altfest, Ellen, 1970- > Criticism and interpretation
  • Altfest, Ellen, 1970-
  • 2000-2099
  • Painting, American > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • Kvinnliga konstnärer > Förenta staterna
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Exhibition catalogs
Note
  • Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at MK Gallery April 3-May 31, 2015.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword / by Anthony Spira -- Dear diary / by Ellen Altfest -- Ellen Altfest still lives / by David Humphrey -- Perceptibility / by Barry Schwabsky -- In conversation with Sylvia Sleigh / by Ellen Altfest -- Plates -- Five questions to Ellen Altfest / by Eric Aho -- By a hair's breadth / by Robert Storr -- Warming to painting in the cold / by Randy Kennedy -- Nudes in Venice / by Ridley Howard -- Showing a little leg / by Dan Keane -- 'I want the painting to become the thing' / by Justin Paton -- A new new realism / by Linda Nochlin -- Foreign body / by Morgan Falconer.
ISBN
  • 9780992903916
  • 0992903912
OCLC
  • 908334718
  • SCSB-10076063
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library