Jay Defeo and the Rose
By: edited by Jane Green and Leah Levy ; with a foreword by Marla Prather
Contributors: Green, Jane, 1956-; Levy, Leah, 1947-; DeFeo, Jay, 1929-
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: DeFeo, Jay, -- 1929-; Abstract expressionism -- United States; Beat generation
Description: "This volume is the first major study of The Rose and of Jay DeFeo in general. In the collection, eleven distinguished art and cultural historians - Bill Berkson, Niccolo Caldararo, Richard Candida Smith, Walter Hopps, Lucy R. Lippard, Greit Marcus, Sandra S. Phillips, Marla Prather, Carter Ratcliff, David A. Ross, and Martha Sherrill - unfold the story of the creation, as well as the tricky and painstaking rescue, of DeFeo's radiant masterpiece. While providing new material on The Rose and exposing many myths surrounding both the artist and her great work, these essays also place Jay DeFeo in relation to artists of her time, including Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Lee Bontecou, and Eva Flesse.

The book, which adds significantly to the scholarship of postwar American art, includes nearly eighty halftones, thirteen color plates, and Judith Dunham's detailed Rose-related chronology."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-183) and index
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Jane Green and Leah Levy; title: The legendary Rose / David A. Ross; title: The story of the Rose / Martha Sherrill; title: Think of Jay Defeo dancing to Count Basie playing "One o'clock jump" / Walter Hopps; title: Without the Rose: Defeo in sixteen Americans / Bill Berkson; title: Transplanting the Rose / Lucy R. Lippard; title: Photographing the Rose / Sandra S. Phillips; title: Portfolio-Valentine's day / Greil Marcus; title: Conserving the Rose / Niccolo Caldararo; title: Vectors of emergence, lines of descent / Richard Candida Smith; title: Art and the limits of language, a critical approach to the rose / Carter Ratcliff; title: Chronology / Judith Dunham