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Nature and Art Are Physical : Writings on Art, 1967-2008 by Rackstraw Downes; John Elderfield is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Nature and Art are Writings on Art, 1967-2008 comprise the selected writings of Rackstraw Downes. Ive written about art in two different ways. First, by narrating the circumstances under which one of my paintings got painted, and how the process went forward. In this case the story, not an idea or an aesthetic point of view, is the issue. Second, by reviewing a show, or a book, or assessing the achievement of an artist or a group of artists. Here, the physical character of finished works, with the thoughts and ideas that emanate from them or, if a book, its intellectual thrust , is the issue. Some of the topics and figures discussed are the fallacies in Modern Art criticism, Post-Modernist Painting, The Conceptualization of Realism, Henri Rousseau and the Idea of the Nive, Ensor and Morandi as printmakers, Czannes drawings and Roger Frys letters, Walter de Marias Lightning Field, Charles Burchfield, Picasso, Samuel Beckett, John Marin, Rudy Burckhardt, Claude Lorrain and John Constable, among others, in the course of which he explores the meaning and tenses of landscape and asks such questions as is technology a new form and what have we made of the landscape? John Elderfield, Chi

Author

Rackstraw Downes; John Elderfield

Publisher

Edgewise Press, Inc

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781893207349

Subjects

Art, Arts