- Hardcover: 136 pages
- Publisher: Hudson Hills Press; illustrated edition edition (Nov 1 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0865591806
- ISBN-13: 978-0865591806
- Product Dimensions: 27.5 x 25.7 x 1.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,020,860 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This extraordinary collection was assembled in a response to a move among American artists to work in a represational manner contrary to prevailing notions of modernism.
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Highly recommended for art library reference collections.,
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This review is from: Comtemporary American Realist Drawings: The Jalane and Richard Davidson Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago (Hardcover)
Contemporary American Realist Drawings: The Jalane And RichardDavidson Collection At The Art Institute Of Chicago superbly showcasesone of the finest collections on the subject extent today. Jalane and Richard Davidson collected drawings from outstanding assembly of American artists ranging from Sigmund Abeles and George Atkinson, to James Winn and Richard Ziemann. Contemporary American Realist Drawings showcases 125 drawings drawn from the Davidson collection of about 300 and are organized by subject matter: Self-Portraits, Portraits, Nudes, Still Lifes, Landscapes, and Other Subjects. The reader is treated to an encyclopedic overview of the many ways in which specific drawing materials may be used from silverpint to charcoal, pastel to black & white. Contemporary American Realist Drawings is further enhanced for the art enthusiast with a Preface by James N. Wood and Douglas W. Druick; an Introduction by Mark Pascale; biographies of every artist by Raymond Hernandez-Duran; and a major essay by Ruth fine about the works represented in the collection. Highly recommended for personal, academic, and community library art history collections.
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This review is from: Comtemporary American Realist Drawings: The Jalane and Richard Davidson Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago (Hardcover)
The book was produced to accompany an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1999-2000, showcasing the contemporary American realist drawings assembled by the collectors Jalane and Richard Davidson over the last twenty five years.Following the short introduction, the main essay discusses the collection as well as the place or realist drawing in today's art environment. It first identifies what is meant by realism in this context, explaining that the Davidsons who amassed the collection had little interest in photo-realism; they preferred to see the individual handwriting of the artist evident in the work. As is apparent from the drawings contained here this clearly encompasses a wide scope. Following the discussion of realist drawing the essay proceeds to consider more specifically the work in the collection, by genre (still-life, portrait) and by some of the individual artists. The essay along with the comprehensive notes runs to page 24. The plates occupy pages 25 through 116; the book concludes with a Checklist of the Exhibition and an Index of Artists' Names. In addition to over a dozen black and white pictures illustrating the text, there are 126 drawings illustrated, all including the back and white drawings reproduced in full colour, a device which avoids any unnatural starkness to the monochrome images. The Plates are shown one or two to a page. The work of around 75 artists is represented, and the list includes William Bailey, Jack Beal, Rackstraw Downes, Janet Fish, Jane Freilicher, Sidney Goodman, Wolf Kahn, Alex Katz, Alfred Leslie, Michael Mazur, Catherine Murphy, Alice Neal, Philip Pearlstein, Joseph Raffael and Neil Welliver. This is a very appealing book; the drawings cover a wide range, from the incredibly meticulous to the very sketchy, in a wide variety of media and an equally wide range of subject matter, and while perhaps the majority are monochrome there are almost as many colour drawings too. 6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Highly recommended for art library reference collections.,
By Midwest Book Review - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Comtemporary American Realist Drawings: The Jalane and Richard Davidson Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago (Hardcover)
Contemporary American Realist Drawings: The Jalane And RichardDavidson Collection At The Art Institute Of Chicago superbly showcasesone of the finest collections on the subject extent today. Jalane and Richard Davidson collected drawings from outstanding assembly of American artists ranging from Sigmund Abeles and George Atkinson, to James Winn and Richard Ziemann. Contemporary American Realist Drawings showcases 125 drawings drawn from the Davidson collection of about 300 and are organized by subject matter: Self-Portraits, Portraits, Nudes, Still Lifes, Landscapes, and Other Subjects. The reader is treated to an encyclopedic overview of the many ways in which specific drawing materials may be used from silverpint to charcoal, pastel to black & white. Contemporary American Realist Drawings is further enhanced for the art enthusiast with a Preface by James N. Wood and Douglas W. Druick; an Introduction by Mark Pascale; biographies of every artist by Raymond Hernandez-Duran; and a major essay by Ruth fine about the works represented in the collection. Highly recommended for personal, academic, and community library art history collections.
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