Burhan Dogançay
Subtitle: works on paper, 1950-2000
By: essay by Richard Vine ; introduction by Thomas M. Messer
Contributors: Vine, Richard
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Hudson Hills Press; Distributed in the U.S. by National Book Network
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Dogançay, Burhan, -- 1929- -- Catalogs
Genres: Catalogs
Description: This book, which is the third major published survey dedicated to Dogancay, is wholly devoted to his works on paper. Within this general category, it is neatly divided into: I: Drawings and sketches (pencil, India ink, crayon); II: Watercolors and gouaches; III: Fumages; IV: Collages; and V: Mixed media, subdivisions that partly overlap and, in their totality, encompass the years from the early 1950s into the new millennium, to represent the intense striving of half a century. Dogancay's wide-ranging works variously combine naturalism and good drawing, traditional qualities instilled by his father and early teachers, with a drive toward radical innovation derived from the Euro-American idea of "progress." He is a man living simultaneously in two worlds, and so a representative figure of our times. His work is pervaded by numerous contemporary dichotomies, East/West, old/new, bourgeois/bohemian, native/expatriate, collective/individual, illustration/sign, volume/flatness, image/text, fictive/real, whose oscillations give off intense artistic sparks. - Introduction.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-222) and index