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The drawings of Al Taylor

Title
The drawings of Al Taylor / Isabelle Dervaux ; with contributions by Lawrence Rinder and Lindsey Tyne.
Publication
  • New York : The Morgan Library & Museum ; Munich ; London ; New York : DelMonico Books, [Imprint of] Prestel, 2020.
  • ©2020

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Additional Authors
  • Dervaux, Isabelle.
  • Rinder, Lawrence.
  • Tyne, Lindsey.
  • Pierpont Morgan Library, organizer, host institution.
  • Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, host institution.
Description
173 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 29 cm
Summary
"Featuring nearly eighty drawings and pages from a dozen sketchbooks from Al Taylor's entire career, The Drawings of Al Taylor documents the artist's important achievements as a draftsman. This book investigates important and illuminating aspects of Al Taylor's drawings, which numbered over five thousand at the time of his death. It includes a chronological survey of Taylor's drawings from the mid-1980s, when he abandoned painting in favor of sculpture and drawing, and highlights the combination of technical refinement, humor, and sensuousness that characterizes his works on paper. Stunning reproductions of the works, which were inspired by such ordinary things as tin cans, pet stains, and rat guards, reveal the drawings' minute details, nuanced shading, and playfully agile pencil lines. Lively texts explore how Taylor's style resonates with that of late Renaissance and Baroque Old Masters in the rich and complex visual sensibility of his drawings. The book also examines Taylor's innovative approach to process and materials, such as photocopier toner, with its intense black, and the extreme white of correction fluid. Created with equal parts humor and technical virtuosity, and informed by scientific models as well as everyday minutiae, Al Taylor's magnificent drawings are meditations on form and structure that stand alone as testament to great draftsmanship"--
Subject
  • Taylor, Al, 1948-1999 > Exhibitions
  • Taylor, Al, 1948-1999 > Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. > Exhibitions
  • Taylor, Al, 1948-1999
  • Taylor, Al, 1948-1999
  • Taylor, Al 1948-1999
  • Painting, Abstract > United States > Exhibitions
  • Painting, American > Exhibitions. > 20th century
  • Künstler
  • United States
  • USA
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs
Note
  • Published to accompany an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, February 21-May 29, 2020, and at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives, July 15-November 8, 2020.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-173).
Contents
A painter's drawings / Isabelle Dervaux -- Looking back: Al Taylor and the old masters / Lawrence Rinder -- Watercolor, ink, toner, or is it dirty water? The materials of Al Taylor's drawings / Lindsey Tyne -- Indigo, Indigoing, Indigone: contribution to a taxonomy of pet names in Al Taylor's The Peabody group #29 / Isabelle Derveaux.
ISBN
  • 9783791359496
  • 3791359495
LCCN
2019029490
OCLC
  • on1108815355
  • 1108815355
  • SCSB-9658655
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library