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Rackstraw Downes

Title
Rackstraw Downes / Sanford Schwartz, Robert Storr, and Rackstraw Downes.
Author
Schwartz, Sanford, 1946-
Publication
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2005.

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Additional Authors
  • Storr, Robert.
  • Downes, Rackstraw.
Description
192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 27 x 29 cm
Summary
"Illustrated with copious examples from thirty years of Rackstraw Downes work, the book makes clear why Downes is widely regarded as a "painter's painter." It show-cases many of the artist's panoramic pictures - painted with a strong sense of place and a miniaturist's sense of scale. The images, which depict industrial parks, construction sites, housing projects, refineries, razor wire, and landfills, stimulate fresh thoughts about these supposedly unattractive sights." "The three essays that accompany Downes's art provide rare insights into the way a painter thinks and works."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Downes, Rackstraw > Criticism and interpretation
  • Downes, Rackstraw
  • Realism in art
  • realism (artistic form of expression)
  • Realism in art > United States
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-185) and index.
Contents
Cinemascope visions / Sanford Schwartz -- Portfolio : 1973-86 -- As far as the eye can see / Robert Storr -- Portfolio : 1988-2003 -- Turning the head in empirical space / Rackstraw Downes.
ISBN
  • 0691120471
  • 9780691120478
LCCN
2004048842
OCLC
  • ocm55887475
  • 55887475
  • SCSB-9507951
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library