Bay Area Figurative Art: 1950-1965 First Edition

by Caroline A. Jones (Author)

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ISBN-13: 978-0520068421

ISBN-10: 0520068424

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During the 1950s a few painters in the San Francisco Bay Area began to stage personal, dramatic defections from the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism, creating what would come to be known as Bay Area Figurative Art. In 1949 David Park destroyed many of his nonobjective canvases and began a new style of consciously naive figuration. Soon Elmer Bischoff and Richard Diebenkorn joined Park and other painters such as Nathan Oliveira, Theophilus Brown, James Weeks, and Paul Wonner in the move away from abstraction and toward figurative subject matter. When artists such as Bruce McGaw, Manuel Neri, and Joan Brown emerged as a second generation of figurative artists, the momentum grew for a powerful new development in American painting.

The achievement of Bay Area Figurative painters and sculptors has become directly relevant to current debates regarding abstraction and representation, as well as to discourses on modernism and postmodernism. Indeed, the historical phenomenon of the movement is an important case study in the evolution of modernism in America, serving as an early example of rupture in the formalist "mainstream."

Bay Area Figurative Art 1950-1965 was written to accompany an exhibition of the same name at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Based on extensive archival research and interviews, it is the first study of the movement as a whole and is the broadest and most accurate account of the careers and interactions of ten Bay Area artists who worked in this new style.

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"It had gotten to the point . . . where anything seemed possible in abstract painting, and therefore nothing was. It was a liberation to paint the figure, to deal with forms that followed other forms."--Richard Diebenkorn, "National Observer, 22 April 1968.

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"Should be the classic, central, definitive work on the emergence of Bay Area Figurative painting."―Paul Mills, author of The New Figurative Painting of David Park

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Paperback: 231 pages
Publisher: University of California Press; First edition (December 13, 1989)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0520068424
ISBN-13: 978-0520068421
Product Dimensions: 9 x 0.8 x 12 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 29 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #363,716 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #162 in Museum Studies & Museology (Books)
- #565 in Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions
- #598 in Art History (Books)

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No color reproductions...rip-off.

April 9, 2017

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When buying an artist catalog, one hopes that at least ONE of the reproductions is in color. None are. I have seen this same catalog before, in its proper printing, and this copy is nowhere near it in terms of quality. The quality of this particular book is dismal. This purchase was a waste of time and money.

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Denise T Finch

Excellent

December 14, 2013

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I'm a docent at the Palm Springs Art Museum and we currently have an exhibition (Oct. 26, 2013 to Feb. 16, 2014)titled, "Richard Diebenkorn, The Berkeley Years, 1953-1966". I wanted more information about the impact of these artists in an art historical context, when discussing Diebenkorn's work. I found the information very valuable and the color plates are a great reproduction and likeness to the original art. I highly recommend this book to anyone's art book library.

It's an easy read and very enlightening!

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C. Royal

Excellent information and beautiful art reproductions

February 8, 2016

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This book is a gem. I needed to give a presentation on Bay Area Figurative Art. The information contained here about the seminal players in this movement is priceless. Need I say, it made me knowledgeable and enthusiastic. Worth every penny!

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C. Schmitz

almost perfect

April 12, 2014

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This book is almost a perfect art book. The reproductions are large and of good quality. I only wish there had been more of them. There are enough to make it worthwhile, but MORE would have made it great. Text was interesting and not too dominant.

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zen

Every art student should own this book

February 17, 2016

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An outstanding selection of work by Bay Area artists.
The one annoyance is the cover, with that idiotic font.

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Maxine

Five Stars

February 23, 2017

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Great book an in depth view of a few great
Artists of this time

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Colorist

Larger and more illustrations would make it even better, but good for what it is

August 9, 2016

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Thorough and complete telling of the prime years. Larger and more illustrations would make it even better, but good for what it is.

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Renee Tissue

This book was exactly what I was looking for, ...

June 16, 2018

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This book was exactly what I was looking for, it gave a reasonably complete review of the art of the period along with paintings of each artist.

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