Don Eddy
Subtitle: The Art of Paradox
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Hudson Hills Press
Published: May 25, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 131
ISBN-13: 9781555952068
Subjects: Art styles: c 1960 -; Individual artists; Painting & paintings; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Biography/Autobiography; Artists, Architects, Photographers; Biography & Autobiography; Art & Art Instruction; Painters; Individual Artist; Eddy, Don,; American - General; History - Realism; Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers; United States; 1944-; Biography; Realism in art
Description: "This monograph surveys the career of a leading American realist painter, covering nearly four decades of work. Author Donald Kuspit calls Eddy a spiritual realist, a metaphysician, acknowledging the work's peculiar mysteriousness, its enigmatic intensity.

Kuspit traces the artist's evolution from the Super Realist auto bumpers and showrooms and shop windows of the early 1970s; through the technically dazzling paintings of dime-store toys, trinkets, pots and pans, and silverware on glass shelves of the later 1970s (row after row of America's material riches); through the hallucinatory works of the 1980s that introduce human presence and natural phenomena into the artist's repertoire; to the spiritual works of the 1990s, many in triptych format, that portray scenes and objects from nature, indeed seem to revel in nature, often captured in out-of-the-way places associated with spiritual reality."--Jacket.