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Portals
出版Marshall Wilkes, 2024-10
主題Art / GeneralEducation / General
ISBN09839670839780983967088
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=aLPV0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"John Moore: Portals" presents the work of American artist John Moore (b. 1941) by bringing together an esteemed group of art historians, poets, curators, and critics who have responded to Moore's canvases through prose and verse. Writers Carl Little, Suzette McAvoy, John R. Stomberg, and Rosanna Warren make art-historical and literary connections from Nicholas Poussin to Wallace Stevens. In the afterword, Christina Kee shares the vision of art collector William Louis-Dreyfus (1932-2013) who acquired forty Moore paintings.Poems by Vincent Katz, Wallace Stevens, Rosanna Warren, John Yau, and Geoffrey Young are featured throughout. In his poem "High Angle Shots," Young asks, "Who would notice the / maddeningly rich complexity if the painter / had not been here?" Moore has spent a life-time creating a body of work that demands a full and considered appraisal. Critical essays by the writers explore four thematic sections: Windows, Urban, Industrial, and Elegies. "Moore embraces the idea of illusionistic painting," writes McAvoy about his window paintings, "but constructs his own reality. . . a synthesis of the seen and the imagined." Stomberg, who writes about Moore's urban paintings, notes that the paintings "find him looking for echoes of the past with both feet firmly placed in the present" In his essay about Moore's industrial paintings, Little notes how like the painter Charles Sheeler, Moore seeks "to combine the memory and the present in a given painting." And addressing Moore's elegiac works, Warren views the painter as "both a classicist and a savvy late-twentieth-, early-twenty-first-century artist working in full awareness of the idioms of abstraction, grids and color field."Published by Marshall Wilkes, "John Moore: Portals" highlights 81 color reproductions and places the artist into the larger canon of American realism. The poet John Yau sums up the work of John Moore: He uses paint, Yau writes, to arrive "at a threshold moment when the daily world, and everything in it, suddenly holds our attention, and we look at it as if we are seeing all of it for the first time."