Richard Diebenkorn : A Retrospective Hardcover

Sasha Nicholas

A fresh and new overview of this treasured West Coast artist, with hundreds of his paintings, drawings, and prints covering five decades of his illustrious career. The book surveys the extraordinary achievements of Diebenkorn, who successfully explored both abstract and figurative painting. Produced in a slipcase box, this is the ultimate source for art enthusiasts, from his early work of the mid-1940s to his Berkeley and Ocean Park series. The book includes not only his iconic paintings of the California landscape and interior figures but also many of his less-well-known and rarely published works. Art historian Sasha Nicholas discusses Diebenkorn s place in postwar American painting and his independence from the art-world trends. Steven Nash conducts an interview with close friend Wayne Thiebaud, giving an artist s point of view. The two artists shared the inspiration of California and experimented with perspective to capture their surroundings.

9780847866212

English

Rizzoli International Publications

24 Oct 2019

384

Sasha Nicholas is an independent curator and art historian specializing in American art. Most recently, she was consulting curator of the exhibition, Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney s Collection. Nicholas formerly worked in the curatorial department of the Whitney Museum, where she contributed to exhibitions and publications on Charles Demuth, Lyonel Feininger, Edward Hopper, Robert Indiana, and Georgia O Keeffe, among others. Steven A. Nash is President, Board of Directors of the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation. He is the former executive director of the Palm Springs Art Museum and founding director of the Nasher Sculpture Center. He also held curatorial positions at the Dallas Museum of Art and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Wayne Thiebaud (American, b. 1920) is a painter best known for his still lifes and food displays as well as California land and cityscapes who made his career on the West Coast. Tony Berlant is a well-known artist living in southern California. Berlant was part of the network of Los Angeles artists including the likes of Ed Ruscha, Bruce Conner, and Joe Goode that helped propel the nascent Los Angeles art scene onto the world stage in the 1960s. Kathan Brown is founder of the Crown Point Press in San Francisco, a fine art printmaking workshop primarily creating and publishing etched intaglio prints. William Luers is a retired American career diplomat and museum executive and has served as a U.S. Navy officer, as president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and as president of the United Nations Association of the United States of America.