Aerial Muse: The Art of Yvonne Jacquette [Hardcover]

Hilarie Faberman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 29, 2002 | ISBN-10: 1555951570 | ISBN-13: 978-1555951573 | Edition: 1

Yvonne Jacquette has for more than thirty years been depicting the landscape from elevated vantage points. Her art combines elements of abstraction and representation, surface pattern and illusion of depth, and observation, imagination, and memory.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Paintings, drawings, and prints of cityscapes and rural terrains as viewed from far overhead have been Jacquette's stock in trade for three decades. Sketched from airplanes and high-rise buildings (the World Trade Center Towers were a favorite perch), her luminous Whistleresque nocturnes are particularly poetic. This catalog by Faberman, curator at the Cantor Center for Visual Ars at Stanford University, accompanies a retrospective held this year at Stanford, with future stops in Maine, Utah, and New York. Three essays chart Jacquette's influences, development as an artist, artworks and performances, perceptual realism, and collaborations with her late husband, the filmmaker and photographer Rudy Burckhardt; poet and critic Edwin Denby; and artists Red Grooms, Mimi Gross, and Alex Katz. Subjects range from her famous aerial views of sparkling urban grids and reflected waterways at night to controversial sites such as the Three Mile Island nuclear facility. The work includes a chronology, comprehensive bibliography, and catalogue raisonn‚ of 55 prints (1973-2000). Recommended for in-depth contemporary collections. Russell T. Clement, Northwestern Univ. Lib., Evanston, IL
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From Booklist

Jacquette paints from on high, either from airplanes or skyscrapers, perspectives that would seem to evoke detachment, yet her aerial landscapes are vibrantly alive and arrestingly human in their emotional valence. This is the first major monograph on this major American artist, and Faberman and her contributors parse Jacquette's unique and powerful work with interpretative keenness, identifying such influences as Brueghel, Monet, Mondrian, and Buddhism and chronicling her essentially charmed artist's life, including her marriage to photographer and filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt. Committed to making "images of observed reality from unusual points of view," Jacquette began by painting floors, then ceilings, then sharply limited patches of sky; then, after a 1971 flight to California, she began to realize her dream of being a "portraitist of American cities." From New York to Chicago and on to Tokyo, Jacquette captures the complexity and kinetic energy of cityscapes and explores the edge between the man-made and the natural. Her night paintings in particular are lustrous miracles of observation, virtuosity, and passion, including a now extremely poignant 1998-99 series from the World Trade Center. Her aesthetic evolution and the deepening of her vision are glorious to see in this volume's outstanding reproductions, which include a catalogue raisonne of Jacquette's magnificent prints. Donna Seaman
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: Hudson Hills Press; 1 edition (January 29, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555951570
• ISBN-13: 978-1555951573
• Product Dimensions: 12.3 x 9.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful book with several fold-outs, February 10, 2011

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This review is from: Aerial Muse: The Art of Yvonne Jacquette (Hardcover)

I am a big fan of Yvonne Jacquette and have several books about her work. This one has lots of decent repro's - not the best quality but also not the highest price book. I particularly like the fold-outs since they let you see some big landscape-style works. I am not commenting on the commentary since my interest is in seeing the work.