To Invent a Garden
Subtitle: The Life and Art of Adja Yunkers
Publisher: Hudson Hills Press
Published: June 25, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781555951856
Subjects: Biography: general; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Individual artists; Yunkers, Adja,; Fine Arts; Artists, Architects, Photographers; Biography / Autobiography; United States; Art; Painters; Historical - U.S; History - Abstract; Art / Fine Arts; 1900-; Abstract expressionism; Biography
Description: "To Invent a Garden: The Life and Art of Adja Yunkers presents the artist's finest work, from his prints and pastels to his artist's books and abstract paintings. Yunkers experimented with a variety of media, taking some - notably woodcut and pastel - to unprecedented levels.".

"This monograph, celebrating the centennial of Yunkers's birth and accompanying an exhibition organized for the Bayly Art Museum at the University of Virginia, restores him to his proper place in the pantheon of the Abstract Expressionist generation. Marek Bartelik's text recounts the story of Yunkers's life and career and analyzes key works from his oeuvre in the context of the artist's biography as well as of contemporaneous events in the spheres of politics, literature, and art."--BOOK JACKET.