Untitled: Robert Lazzarini Works on Paper [Hardcover]

Brad Thomas (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2006

The Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College is pleased to announce the publication of Untitled -- Robert Lazzarini Works on Paper. This catalogue accompanies the first survey exhibition of works on paper by artist Robert Lazzarini. This hardbound, full-color publication contains numerous illustrations and features the essay Marking Time by curator Brad Thomas as well as a conversation with Robert Lazzarini and Chuck Close.

Robert Lazzarini came into the international spotlight in 2001 with an exhibition of skulls in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s exhibition BitStreams, which focused on the intersection of art and technology in the information age. His uncanny sculptures of distorted human skulls sent shockwaves through the art world. He followed the success of that display with payphone in the 2002 Whitney Biennial. In doing so, he solidified his place among highly acclaimed up-and-coming American artists. Since then, his work has been the subject of a solo exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in 2003. His second solo museum exhibition will be held at the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, NC through July, 2006.

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About the Author

Brad Thomas is an artist and director of the Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College. He is the recipient of several awards including a North Carolina Arts Council Visual Artist Fellowship and New Works Grant. His works are represented in numerous private and public collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art. As a curator he has organized exhibitions ranging from the acclaimed retrospective of apocalyptic visionary paintings by the late Reverend McKendree Robbins Long entitled Picture Painter of the Apocalypse, to a presentation of narrative textiles by indigenous peoples of war-torn countries entitled Threads of Conflict. His critical reviews have appeared in the Chicago Tribune and most recently, he has authored a catalogue for a survey exhibition of works on paper by contemporary American artist Robert Lazzarini.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 57 pages
• Publisher: Davidson College (April 2006)
• ISBN-10: 1890573043
• ISBN-13: 978-1890573041
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,238,546 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Untitled - Robert Lazzarini Works on Paper, August 8, 2006

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Larry J. Anderson "artist" (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Untitled: Robert Lazzarini Works on Paper (Hardcover)

I was familiar with Lazzarini's sculpture but had never seen any of the drawings. This beautifully designed book not only displays them well but the various points of view given by the curator, Brad Thomas, and the interview between the artist and Chuck Close add considerable depth to intent and meaning. As a professor of drawing it will be a good addition to my bibliography on contemporary drawing.

5.0 out of 5 stars As much a work of art as the art, itself!, July 23, 2006

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T. A. Lorenzin "Tomm Lorenzin" (Mooresville, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Untitled: Robert Lazzarini Works on Paper (Hardcover)

This Catalog is a work of art in and of itself. To place this piece on a bookshelf with only its spine showing would be criminal. Great choice of content for the cover! And, the placement of the drawings on the pages without using hard rule borders or drop shadows is masterful; the drawings appear to lie right on the page before us.

The text is artful, too: "...obfuscating with...a cluster of haptic lines" for "scribbling over" gave me a frisson. :^)

I just received my copy of the Mint's (Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC) Lazzarini sculptures catalog. While the content is admirable and informative (although not quite up to the standard set by the "Untitled:..." catalog), the physical form of the Mint catalog is - at best - perfunctory, and doesn't do Lazzarini and his exhibit the high credit that "Untitled: Robert Lazzarini Works on Paper" does. This is a tributary work of art, itself; the creativity, energy, and industry put into it shows and must be apparent to Lazzarini, himself. I bet he has THIS catalog on his coffee table, while the Mint cat is sandwiched between seldom used books in a studio case.