"A gorgeous and moving book about a grand American masterpiece."--Thomas Hoving "Is The Rose erupting or imploding, or is it doing both simultaneously--swallowing up and disgorging a life, an era, an entire mythos? The current volume, at last grappling with the whole of Jay DeFeo's great billowing fever dream of a masterpiece, plugs a gaping hole in the history of contemporary American art, and does so with a sense of moment and scale and flair worthy of its mind-blowing subject."--Lawrence Weschler "An original and ... Read More
"A gorgeous and moving book about a grand American masterpiece."--Thomas Hoving "Is The Rose erupting or imploding, or is it doing both simultaneously--swallowing up and disgorging a life, an era, an entire mythos? The current volume, at last grappling with the whole of Jay DeFeo's great billowing fever dream of a masterpiece, plugs a gaping hole in the history of contemporary American art, and does so with a sense of moment and scale and flair worthy of its mind-blowing subject."--Lawrence Weschler "An original and highly effective combining of 'readings' of the work of Jay DeFeo, a leading figure of the Beat generation. The various perspectives of the authors come smoothly together in their recognition of her supreme artistic ambition and desire to approach transcendence through art. New images and insights demythologize "The Rose, " now a genuine icon of the heroic abstract expressionist ethos identified with the era, enabling its creator to emerge as an individual and thereby richly enhancing our understanding of both the art and the artist."--Paul J. Karlstrom, editor of "On the Edge of America: California Modernist Art, 1900-1950" "Eight years in the making, Jay DeFeo's The Rose was hidden behind a wall for over two decades and uncovered only after the artist's death. This book presents an account of its remarkable birth, burial, rescue, and resurrection through the words of conservators, curators, art historians, friends of the artist, and critics. The volume's sensitively written essays bring "The Rose" back to life in all its enigmatic complexity. It is a story unparalleled in contemporary art history, by turns riveting, heartbreaking, and exhilarating."--Eleanor Heartney, author of "Critical Condition: American Culture at the Crossroads" Read Less
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Fine in Fine jacket. pp. 194. Gray cloth with spine titles in silver. Quarto, 192 pages. Bibliography, list of contribut ors, index. Profusely illustrated in black and white, 12 color illustrations. Excellent and informative essays on "The Rose" and Defeo and her times. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Ships in box.
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Fine Condition in Fine Condition jacket. Book 192 pages with 93 illustrations 13 color plates. Foreword by Marla Prather. Introduction by Jane Green and Leah Levy. List of Illustrations. Selected Bibliography.
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Fine in Fine jacket. New York: The Whitney Museum of American Art / University of California Press, 2003. First edition. First printing. Full black cloth, gilt spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Quarto, 192 pages, with 93 illustrations, including 13 color plates. "Jay DeFeo and The Rose" is the first comprehensive study of DeFeos monumental painting "The Rose, " a nearly two-thousand-pound work created over eight years and long considered a masterpiece of the San Francisco Beat scene. The volume documents the paintings creation, its decades in storage, and its painstaking conservation before its installation at the Whitney Museum. Editors: Jane Green, Leah Levy. Essays by David A. Ross, Martha Sherrill, Walter Hopps, Bill Berkson, Lucy R. Lippard, Sandra S. Phillips, Greil Marcus, Niccolo Caldararo, Richard Cándida Smith, Carter Ratcliff, and Judith Dunham. Jay DeFeo (19291989) was a San Francisco painter, sculptor, and central figure in the Beat generation art movement. Known primarily for "The Rose, " she also produced a wide-ranging body of experimental paintings, drawings, and photographs. "Jay DeFeo and The Rose" remains the definitive monograph on both her life and her most famous work.
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good reference to have about "Jay DeFeo". a fantastic person and creator. if you don't have a place on your book shelf - donate it to the art department of a school
