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| Theater of Object |
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By : |
Donald Sultan |
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Text by : |
Carter Ratcliff |
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Essay by : |
John Ravenal |
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Illustrations : |
300 full-color Illustrations |
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Pages : |
272 pages |
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Trim Size : |
11 x 14 in (27.9 x 35.6 cm), portrait |
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Format : |
Hardcover with jacket |
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ISBN : |
978-0-86565-192-0 |
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Published Date : |
12/01/2008 |
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USD Price: |
US $75.00 CAN $85.00 |
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“It's a must for modern voluptuaries.” ~Interview
“Sultan has been an influential artist for more than three decades, and this book shows why. ” ~Sacramento Book Review
An immaculately produced volume, Donald Sultan is a detailed examination of the artist’s distinguished thirty-year career and captures the essence of an innovative spirit whose work continues to evolve and inspire.
In the electrified atmosphere of New York’s downtown art renaissance of the 1980s, when graffiti and post-modern figuration were filling gallery walls and art magazines, Donald Sultan (b. 1951) developed a strikingly different style using simple iconography and a complex technique. His gouged and spackled paintings of lemons, tulips, and vases were abstract, familiar, erotic, and captured enthusiastic critical attention immediately. Influenced by artists from Sasetta to Warhol, Sultan chose still life as the vehicle for advancing his mission to “haul painting into the 21st century." Today, Sultan’s work can be found in more than forty-five American museums, including MoMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Gallery of Art. |
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Since his first major show in the late 1907s, DONALD SULTAN has exhibited in hundreds of group and solo shows in the United States and Europe. He is represented by galleries on two continents. His works are in the collections of major museums around the world. He has participated in a variety of limited-edition publication projects,most notably a children’s book, Warm and Cold, and a book of prose and prints, Bar Mitzvah, both produced in collaboration with David Mamet, and a book of poems and prints, Visual Poetics, with the late poet Robert Creeley.
A leading art critic, CARTER RATCLIFF has received numerous awards of distinction for his work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and two Art Critics Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is a contributing editor to Art in America and the author of a collection of essays, The Figure of the Artist, and several renowned books on modern and contemporary art, including The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art and Out of the Box: The Reinvention of Art: 1965-1975.
JOHN B. RAVENAL is the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Ravenal’s recent exhibitions include the first survey of sculpture by Robert Lazzarini (2003), recognized by the International Association of Art Critics as one the year’s best exhibitions; and Artificial Light (2006), featuring light-based sculpture and installation art. Ravenal recently completed the book Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
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