Elmer Bischoff
Subtitle: the ethics of paint
By: Susan Landauer ; with an introduction by Bill Berkson.
Contributors: Bischoff, Elmer, 1916-; Oakland Museum of California.; Orange County Museum of Art (Calif.); Norton Museum of Art.
Publisher: University of California Press; Oakland Museum
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Berkeley; Oakland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Bischoff, Elmer, 1916-; Bischoff, Elmer, 1916- -- Criticism and interpretation; Painters -- United States -- Biography; Figurative expressionism -- California
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Ethics of paint
Description: "Elmer Bischoff (1916-1991) is generally regarded as one of the leaders among the artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who, after contributing to the local emergence of Abstract Expressionism during the 1940s and 50s, shifted the terms of their spectacularly sensual brushwork to recognizable imagery.

Bill Berkson writes that if "David Park was the classicist of the founding triad of the Bay Area Figurative painters, and Richard Diebenkorn the modernist, Bischoff was the romantic." Designed to accompany a major retrospective of Bischoff's work, this volume is illustrated with duotones and color plates that faithfully capture the subtle variations in shade that characterize the painter's oeuvre.

Berkson and Susan Landauer, both of whom knew Bischoff, provide the definitive view of the life, art, and teaching career of this important artist."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-204) and index.
Exhibition held at the Oakland Museum of California, Oct. 31, 2001-Jan. 13, 2001, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, Calif., Feb. 15-June 2, 2002, and at the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Fla., Oct.17, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003.