Lois Dodd
By: Faye Hirsch ; foreword by Barry Schwabsky
Contributors: Schwabsky, Barry, writer of the foreword; Dodd, Lois, 1927- artist; Dodd, Lois, 1927-
Series: Contemporary painters
Publisher: Lund Humphries
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9781848222373
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Painters; Criticism and interpretation; Women painters; Biography; American Painting
Description: This book is the first monograph on the paintings of Lois Dodd. It provides invaluable analysis and contextualisation of her work alongside such New York City contemporaries as Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein and other denizens of the Tenth Street milieu of the 1950s. Emerging from the shadow of Abstract Expressionism, Dodd and this circle cleaved to an observational painting based in the early modernist tradition. Beginning in the 1950s, Lois Dodd has steadfastly pursued her observational painting, remaining aloof from passing trends. She is widely admired as a 'painter's painter' whose landscapes and city scenes display subtle effects of place, light and weather within graphically distilled compositions. Dodd's works capture the intangible character of changing seasons or particular hours of day in locations throughout New York City, rural New Jersey and Maine, but the paintings betray no mark of era. They are curiously timeless.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-136) and index.
Table of contents: title: Beginnings; title: Dodd's nature; title: Dodd's windows; title: Dodd's vision.