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(Signed) (2005)
~EN HC US SIISBN: 9780691120478 bzw. 0691120471, vermutlich in Englisch, Princeton University Press, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht, guter Zustand, signiert.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, SequiturBooks.
Princeton University Press, 2005-05-08. Hardcover. Like New. Signed. Flat signed by Rackstraw Downes on front end page. Brand new. Clean, unmarked pages. Fine binding and cover. Hardcover. 192 p. : il. color. ; 26 x 29 cm. *Autographed by artist.* Rackstraw Downes received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998. In 1999 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2009 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship 'genius award'. In 1982 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1994. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
Rackstraw Downes (2005)
~EN HC US SI FEISBN: 9780691120478 bzw. 0691120471, vermutlich in Englisch, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ USA, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht, guter Zustand, signiert, Erstausgabe.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Village Works, NY, New York, [RE:3].
Signed by Author(s) 1st Printing. 4to-over 9¾-12" tall. pp. 200. Signed by Rackstraw Downes on front end page. Some minor wear to dust jacket. Hardcover, 1st Edition.
EN USISBN: 0691120471 bzw. 9780691120478, in Englisch, Princeton University Press, gebraucht.
arts music and photography,criticism,history,history and criticism,individual artists,landscape,painting, It might seem odd that a brilliant realist painter would choose to spend months working on a seven-foot-long canvas of a boring stretch of the New Jersey Turnpike. But in Rackstraw Downes' hands, ordinary or unappealing elements of the American landscape suddenly seem worthy of close attention. Rackstraw Downes, an overdue tribute to the English-born artist, combines 100 striking color reproductions of the artist's panoramic paintings (including vivid details) with illuminating commentary. After studying at Yale University in the early 1960s, when abstraction was beginning to yield to Pop and Minimalism, Downes found his footing by taking a long, careful look at landscape. In recent years, he has painted sites in Manhattan, including luminous city views and an eerie 1998 portrait of untenanted office space in the World Trade Center. But his major subjects have always been marginal spaces in nature-landfills and scrubland, culverts and dumps. Putting up with the vagaries of weather and interruptions by suspicious officials, he paints these scenes onsite. Lively details picked out in jewel-like colors are united by the precise evocation of light and atmosphere, the geometry of lines and curves, and Downes' complex system of perspective. (He writes about recreating the experience of turning your head to take in an entire panorama.) Seeking neither to romanticize these scenes nor to critique them-although he is an environmentalist at heart-Downs prefers the naturalist's d.
Rackstraw Downes (2005)
~EN HC USISBN: 9780691120478 bzw. 0691120471, vermutlich in Englisch, Princeton University Press, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht, guter Zustand.
Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Books.
Rackstraw Downes (2005)
~EN HC USISBN: 9780691120478 bzw. 0691120471, vermutlich in Englisch, Princeton University Press, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht, guter Zustand.
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Rackstraw Downes (2005)
~EN HC US SI FEISBN: 9780691120478 bzw. 0691120471, vermutlich in Englisch, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ USA, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht, guter Zustand, signiert, Erstausgabe, mit Einband.
Signed by Rackstraw Downes on front end page. Some minor wear to dust jacket. Books.
Rackstraw Downes
~EN HC NWISBN: 9780691120478 bzw. 0691120471, vermutlich in Englisch, Princeton University Press, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, gebundenes Buch, neu.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, William Leist Store.
hardcover. NEW/NEW. NEW.