The Not-So-Still Life
Subtitle: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture (The Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Imprint)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: November 10, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780520239371
Subjects: History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Painting & paintings; Sculpture & other three-dimensional art forms; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Criticism; Art & Art Instruction; Techniques - Painting; Art; California; Exhibitions; Techniques - Painting - Still Life; United States - State & Local - General; Art / General; Sculpture; Art, American; Still-life in art
Description: "In illustrated essays, as entertaining as they are informative, The Not-So-Still Life traces the great variety of media and forms these artists have engaged as they have moved the still life not just off the table, but off the wall and into three dimensions. Susan Landauer, William H. Gerdts, and Patricia Trenton investigate a range of forces and influences - whether historical, sociological, economic, psychological, or biographical - that have played into this evolution, from the plein-air Impressionism of the early twentieth century to the Synchromist bouquets of Stanton Macdonald-Wright, the revolving table settings of Charles Ray, and the electronic sculptures of Alan Rath. In doing so they deepen our understanding of American art over the last century." "Presenting, interpreting, and celebrating the world-renowned and the lesser-known California artists who have uniquely defined and redefined the still life, this volume offers an exploration of the sensual pleasures, the aesthetic challenges, and the intellectual and perceptual associations of a century of art through the prism of a single genre."--Jacket.