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Theophilus Brown : paintings, collages, & drawings
- Title
- Theophilus Brown : paintings, collages, & drawings / John Arthur.
- Author
- Arthur, John, 1939-
- Publication
- Chesterfield, MA : Chameleon Books, [2007]
- Easthampton, MA : Distributed in the United States and Canada by Antique Collectors' Club, [2007]
- ©2007
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | N6537.B796 A88 2007 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Brown, Theophilus
- Description
- 144 p. : col. ill.; 26 x 28 cm.
- Summary
- The illustrious Bay Area figurative artists emerged in the mid-fifties and attained national acclaim by the early sixties. Their improvisational compositions and the perceptually derived canvases of the East Coast realists marked the regeneration of representational painting at the height of Abstract Expressionism and Greenbergian Formalism. Theophilus Brown first achieved national attention more than a half century ago with his 'football' paintings, but the visual and thematic character of this work began to crystallize when he moved to Berkeley and enrolled in the graduate studio program at the University of California. Always a figurative painter, Brown's aesthetic sensibility was formed through his post-war contact with Picasso, Braque, Giacometti, and others in Paris; the influence of Willem de Koonig's mentoring in New York; and his heady rapport with David Park, Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn, Paul Wonner, James Weeks, and Nathan Oliviera in Berkeley. Today this close knit and highly influential group, known here and abroad as the Bay Area figurative painters, has attained legendary status in twentieth century American art.
- Alternative Title
- Theophilus Brown : paintings, collages, and drawings
- Subject
- Brown, Theophilus > Catalogs
- Brown, Theophilus > Criticism and interpretation
- Brown, Theophilus
- 1900-1999
- Collage, American > 20th century
- Painting, American > 20th century
- Drawing, American > 20th century
- Figurative painting, American > California > San Francisco Bay Area > 20th century
- Collage, American
- Drawing, American
- Figurative painting, American
- Painting, American
- California > San Francisco Bay Area
- Genre/Form
- catalogs (documents)
- Catalogs
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Catalogs.
- Catalogues.
- Contents
- Prologue -- Theophilus Brown and Bay Area Figurative Painting -- Quiet Beaches and Other Reveries -- Urban and Industrial Landscapes -- Portraits and Self-Portraits -- Chance and Confluence -- Drawings -- Epilogue (with an essay by William Inge) -- Biographical Data, Selected Exhibitions.
- ISBN
- 9780915829750
- 0915829754
- OCLC
- ocn166384331
- 166384331
- SCSB-1463727
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library