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Laura Owens
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Publisher
Jrp Editions
Publication date
April 20, 2007
Pages
228
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9783905770117
ISBN-10
3905770113
Dimensions
1 by 9.25 by 12.75 in.
Weight
3.40 lbs.
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Out of Print
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$55.00
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Laura Owens once said of more doctrinaire painters that "the weight of art history is what gets you that crusty, stodgy feeling, when you look at a work of art and you feel that the person hasn't stepped outside, hasn't looked in other wings of the Met, hasn't gone to a natural history museum." There is no danger of that in her own good-natured and elegant works, which seem to emulate Rousseau, Grandma Moses and the aesthetics of the 1960s and of vintage decorative arts at once. Robots in the garden, lions, hunters, romance and war are some of the subjects parading through, under passing influences as wide ranging as Dada performance, Japanese prints and Hindu beliefs. Birds grow larger than the trees they perch on, cats sniff at a pair of skulls and monkeys exchange wary glances. Elsewhere, Owens has broken away from the fine arts to move into wallpaper and textiles. Beyond all this straightforward beauty is constant inquiry into her chosen media. She has rejected naturalism in favor of depiction, representation and an unashamed pleasure in ornamentation, which, with her delight in pictorial grace, affords decoration a new dignity. She combines the abstract with the representational in a highly personal vocabulary, from which she creates an elaborate, elegant and quietly exuberant whole. Laura Owens collects the artist's complete works to date.
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Hardcover
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9783905770117 | details & prices | 228 pages | 9.25 × 12.75 × 1.00 in. | 3.40 lbs | List price $55.00
About: Laura Owens once said of more doctrinaire painters that "the weight of art history is what gets you that crusty, stodgy feeling, when you look at a work of art and you feel that the person hasn't stepped outside, hasn't looked in other wings of the Met, hasn't gone to a natural history museum.
About: Laura Owens once said of more doctrinaire painters that "the weight of art history is what gets you that crusty, stodgy feeling, when you look at a work of art and you feel that the person hasn't stepped outside, hasn't looked in other wings of the Met, hasn't gone to a natural history museum.
With Thomas Lawson |
from Museum of Contemporary Art (May 1, 2003)
9780914357834 | details & prices | 88 pages | 8.75 × 11.25 × 0.50 in. | 1.30 lbs | List price $24.00
With Pieranna Cavalchini, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (other contributor), Anne Hawley |
from Charta (September 1, 2001)
9788881583287 | details & prices | 63 pages | 6.75 × 9.75 × 0.25 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $21.95
About: Laura Owens is among a select group of artists credited with the rebirth of American painting.
About: Laura Owens is among a select group of artists credited with the rebirth of American painting.
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