Antonio Lopez Garcia (Paperback)

by Cheryl Brutvan (Author)

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Product Description
Antonio Lopez Garcia is one of Spain's most revered contemporary artists. Bringing his profound visual sensitivity and mastery of light to bear on a range of deliberately quotidian subjects, Lopez Garcia imbues them with an extraordinary and haunting character. In 1993, his paintings and drawings were given a major retrospective at the Reina Sofia, Madrid, while Victor Erice's 1992 documentary about Lopez Garcia, The Quince Tree of the Sun, received the Critics' Prize at that year's Cannes and top prize at the Chicago Film Festival. Yet Lopez Garcia's work has rarely been exhibited outside his native country. This book, published to accompany the first major exhibition of his art in the United States (in tandem with the MFA's monumental El Greco to Velazquez exhibition), offers the first comprehensive overview in English of this extraordinary oeuvre. An essay by curator Cheryl Brutvan discusses Lopez Garcia as a descendant of the great Spanish naturalists, as well as his indebtedness to Surrealism and "magic realism," while individual appreciations of some 50 paintings offer English-speaking readers their first opportunity to appreciate in depth the remarkable poetry and atmospheric density of this major world artist.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: MFA Publications (May 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0878467335
• ISBN-13: 978-0878467334
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #48,413 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing artist, great book, July 18, 2008

By	L. Ng (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Yes this book is smaller than the $1,500. Rizzoli book, but it has great reproductions and newer work that isn't in the other book. This is a MUST have for any Lopez Garcia fan.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pre-review., May 18, 2008

By	Rico Lebrun - See all my reviews

Why so inexpensive when the Rizolli book is $400+? Size. This is a small book at 6 3/4 by 8 1/4. I appreciate anything I can get on the artist, but the person who put this book together should have considered the stature of this artist. In my opinion and I am far from alone, he is one of our very best painters/sculptors living today.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing painter represented in an excellent book/catalogue, May 17, 2009

By	Blue "in Washington" (Washington, DC United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

Spanish artist Antonio Lopez Garcia gets his due in this excellent art book/catalogue that accompanied a far-ranging exhibit of his work at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 2008. There are 160 pages of well-chosen examples of his drawings, paintings and sculpture in this book. The color illustrations are very well done.

Lopez Garcia is known as a realist painter, but he has dabbled with surrealism, pre-Raphaelite/symbolism and modernist themes. His monumental cityscapes are wonderfully evocative, but his intimate interiors are just as interesting and beautiful.

A terrific artist who deserves more exposure in the U.S. This book helps that cause and should be any serious art book collection.