- Hardcover: 105 pages
- Publisher: Crown Point Pr (March 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1891300113
- ISBN-13: 978-1891300110
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 18 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 544 g
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In Why Draw a Landscape? Kathan Brown proposes that the best artists reflect issues of their times in their work and suggests that in life and art engagement is replacing coolness. "If I'm right," she says, "Irony may be on the way out as the darling of the art world avant-garde."
Brown writes here about eleven painters and sculptors. Their different approaches to landscape are not only personal to them, but also raise thoughts about fragmentation, change and other forces that affect our lives.
About the Author
Kathan Brown studied writing at Antioch College and art at the Central School of Art in London. In 1962 she started Crown Point Press, a workshop where artists use the near-obsolete but beautiful medium of etching to make art. Crown Point Press publishes mainly artists' etchings, and in addition occasionally publishes books about art. The Press is located in San Francisco, where Brown also makes her home.
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Words from one who understands, Dec 7 2005
By Grady Harp - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Why Draw a Landscape? (Hardcover)
Kathan Brown has long been a champion of art, both in writing and in production: her Crown Point Press in San Francisco was founded in 1962 as has served as a resting place where artists can be 'in residence' to work with the outstanding staff of craftsman to create new ideas in etching and monoprint form from their busy careers of painting and drawing. In this excellent book Brown discusses the work of eleven artists whose preoccupation with the landscape provoked conversations with Brown that lead to this penetrating and wise interaction of ideas lightly titled WHY DRAW A LANDSCAPE?The artists with whom Brown has a working relationship at the Press include Jane Freilicher, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, April Gornik, Pat Steir, Joan Nelson, Anne Appleby, Edward Ruscha, Robert Bechtle, Tom Marioni, Bryan Hunt, and David Nash. And is ever there were more disparate views of observing and drawing the landscape than this group of artists represents, it has not been the subject of writing. Brown writes with skill and wit and a natural warmth. In responding to the works of these artists and their views of the land, Brown states 'Irony may be on the way out as the darling of the art world avant-garde agenda', and few writers can state such a fact with quiet sensitivity better than Kathan Brown. This book is a fine adjunct to those who elect to investigate representational art and landscape art in particular. Grady Harp, December 05
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Great little book for emerging artists, Feb 2 2010
By James - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Why Draw a Landscape? (Hardcover)
This little book packs a BIG punch! Discussion of contemporary landscape art is a pretext for examining Post-Modern, Conceptual, Neo-Expressionist etc. viewpoints and application which Kathan Brown does with both clarity and passion. Brown poses questions such as "What is the difference between Modern and Post-Modern art?" and "How does current philosophical thought inform the art of contemporary practicing artists?". Her commentary is insightful as she writes about the nature of art, the creative process and life experiences which are gleaned from her own printmaking experiences and other artist's quotes and work. This is a wonderful little book which is helpful to emerging artists like myself and others who are interested in the direction of art thought and practice during the last half of the 20th century and into the 21st century. This book includes many artist's full color reproductions representative of their most important body of work (paintings, etchings and sculptures) and brief biographical information. Thank You Kathan for your words that cut through the jargon of contemporary art critics and historians and introduce us to some of the most engaging artists of the last forty years.
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