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Zusatztext "[David Park's] bold colors and everyday subjects helped usher in a new modernism." Informationen zum Autor Nancy Boas is the author of The Society of Six: California Colorists (UC Press) and a contributor to the exhibition and catalog Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area (UC Press). She was Adjunct Curator of American Paintings at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and co-curated the exhibition California Colorists: Paintings by the Society of Six. Klappentext "At last a reliable and enlightening biography of David Park-one of America's most original artists. Boas fills in the many gaps of Park's life! all of which influenced his art."-Richard Armstrong! Director! Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation "This book makes a very important contribution to the literature on David Park and on Bay Area art from the 1930s through the 1950s more generally. Nancy Boas has done a tremendous amount of research on her subject! presenting totally new information on Park's art and life in polished prose that will attract a wide audience within the art world. There is no question that this will become the standard biography on Park."-Steven Nash! Executive Director! Palm Springs Art Museum "This is a well-researched! engaging! and informative biography! detailing the life and work of one of California's most important modern artists. Nancy Boas inspires a deep admiration for David Park's late figurative paintings! and anyone with an interest in Park and his milieu will find this a valuable and engrossing book."-David Cateforis! Professor of Art History! University of Kansas Zusammenfassung David Park (1911-1960), transplanted Bostonian turned ground-breaking West Coast painter, led the way in creating what became known as Bay Area Figurative Art - a daring move during the post-World War II years when abstract expressionism held sway. This biography traces Park's resolute search for a fresh kind of figuration. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue. Values! Not Scenes 1. First Years! 1911-1928 2. Out West! 1928-1930 3. New Friends! 1931-1934 4. Genesis! 1934-1936 5. Back East! 1936-1941 6. The War Effort! 1941-1944 7. The California School of Fine Arts! 1945-1946 8. In the Studio! 1946-1949 9. I Call Them Pictures! 1950-1953 10. A Single Self! 1953-1955 11. From Domestic Scenes to Bathers and Nudes! 1955-1958 12. Image and Void! 1958-1959 13. End Story! 1959-1960 14. The Life of the Work! after 1960 Coda. The Blaze in the Darkness Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography List of Illustrations Index ...
