The art of Joan Brown
By: Karen Tsujimoto and Jacquelynn Baas ; with a foreword by Brenda Richardson
Contributors: Baas, Jacquelynn, 1948-; Brown, Joan, 1938-1990; University of California, Berkeley. University Art Museum; Oakland Museum of California
Publisher: University of California
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780520214682; 9780520214699
Subjects: Exhibitions; Schilderijen
Description: Joan Brown (1938-1990) emerged from the post-abstract expressionist era in the late 1950s as one of a lively group of Northern California artists whose work gave rise to Bay Area figurative painting, Beat culture, and funk art, and helped establish California as a major creative center in the United States.

In this first book to fully explore Joan Brown's artistic career, Karen Tsujimoto provides an overview of Brown's life, from her San Francisco childhood to her years as a mature artist and teacher. Jacquelynn Baas focuses on Brown's use of universal and personal symbolism by analyzing one of her most celebrated paintings, The Bride.

In addition to many fine reproductions of her work and personal photographs from her family's collection, the authors have included material from extensive interviews with Joan Brown that allow her to speak for herself about art and the creative process.

In 1990, while installing an obelisk she had created for the Eternal Heritage Museum in Puttaparthi, India, Joan Brown was killed instantly when a concrete turret fell on her. What lives on in her work is her fascination with the human condition and a determination to record its essence as reflected in her own life.
Notes: Catalog for the exhibition "Transformation: the art of Joan Brown," held at the University of California Berkeley Art Museum and the Oakland Museum of California, Sept. 26, 1998-Jan. 17, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-261) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Jacquelynn Baas and Dennis M. Power; title: Foreword / Brenda Richardson; title: Painting as a visual diary : the art of Joan Brown / Karen Tsujimoto; title: To know this place for the first time : interpreting Joan Brown / Jacquelynn Baas; title: Chronology / Sharon E. Bliss; title: Exhibition history / Barbara Eaton and Patrice Wagner; title: Bibliography / Joanna Wong and Karen Kienzle.