Light on Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis - Couverture rigide

Selz, Gabrielle

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ISBN 10 : 0520310713 ISBN 13 : 9780520310711

Editeur : University of California Press, 2021

Synopsis

The first in-depth biography of Sam Francis, the legendary American abstract painter who broke all the rules in his personal and artistic life.

Light on Fire is the first comprehensive biography of Sam Francis, one of the most important American abstract artists of the twentieth century. Based on Gabrielle Selz's unprecedented access to Francis's files, as well as private correspondence and hundreds of interviews, this book traces the extraordinary and ultimately tragic journey of a complex and charismatic artist who first learned to paint as a former air-corps pilot encased for three years in a full-body cast. While still a young man, Francis saw his color-saturated paintings fetch the highest prices of any living artist. His restless desire resulted in five marriages and homes on three continents; his entrepreneurial spirit led to founding a museum, a publishing company, a reforestation program and several nonprofits. Light on Fire captures the art, life, personality, and talent of a man whom the art historian and museum director William C. Agee described as a rare artist participating in the "visionary reconstruction of art history," defying creative boundaries among the likes of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning. With settings from World War II San Francisco to postwar Paris, New York, Tokyo, and Los Angeles, Selz crafts an intimate portrait of a man who sought to resolve in art the contradictions he couldn't resolve in life.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gabrielle Selz is the award-winning author of Unstill Life: A Daughter's Memoir of Art and Love in the Age of Abstraction. Her articles have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520310713
• ISBN 13: 9780520310711
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 392
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• Personne responsable: non disponible