Tom Slaughter : Blue cover - Couverture rigide

Lowry, Glenn D.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 173298641X ISBN 13 : 9781732986411

Editeur : The Artist Book Foundation, 2019

Synopsis

• The Artist Book Foundation introduces an extensive monograph of Tom Slaughter
• Celebrating the artist's enduring optimism, personal and artistic honesty, and charming brashness in a landscape of pure joy
• Slaughters' friends pay tribute to a dear friend whose prolific career, though cut short, was remarkable for a visual language that makes his art accessible to everyone

The Artist Book Foundation is pleased to announce the publication of Tom Slaughter, an extensive monograph of the artist's enormous body of work that celebrates his enduring optimism, personal and artistic honesty, and charming brashness in a landscape of pure joy.

Glenn Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art, reveals Slaughter as a treasured friend whose artistry was fuelled by endless curiosity about life's simple pleasures, a man who made his innumerable friends and acquaintances part of his personal community. Slaughter's lifelong friend, actor and writer David Marshall Grant, remembers the artist's delight when, in a high school art class, he was introduced to the mysteries of negative space and the enigmatic power it brings to an artwork. Artist, art critic, and independent curator Andy Fabo describes his friend's vibrant art as all about pleasure. Even in the most turbulent of times, he took a celebratory approach to his art, offering his viewers a sensual and visual delight. For Jon Robin Baitz, playwright and screenwriter, the 'sweetness' of Slaughter's images was insistent, a compulsive scrutinising of the visual world of small domesticities. Marthe Jocelyn, the artist's former wife and a children's book author and illustrator, reflects on the couple's acclaimed collaboration on a series of books for the very youngest readers. Jim Kempner, gallery owner, recalls Slaughter as a man of charm and enormous artistic talent who always managed to retain a childlike innocence. Artist George Negroponte remembers Slaughter as focusing on the life around him, especially his daughters, in a unique mixture of everyday images, abstracted yet conveying popular culture. And in an interview both informative and poignant, Slaughters' friends, artists Stephen Hannock, Jean-Paul Russell, Robert Harms, Ray Charles White, and Scott Kilgour pay tribute to a dear friend whose prolific career, though cut short, was remarkable for a visual language that makes his art accessible to everyone.

Contents:
FOREWORD by Glenn Lowry
INTRODUCING TOM SLAUGHTER by Hannah and Nell Jocelyn
THE NEGATIVE SPACE by David Marshall Grant 1980-1990
THE OBJECT MAKER by George Negroponte 1990-1998
EVERY SUMMER by Marthe Jocelyn 1998-2005

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Glenn Lowry is an American art historian and the director of the Museum of Modern Art. David Marshall Grant is an actor, singer, and writer. George Negroponte is an artist with works in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Marthe Jocelyn is an award-winning author and illustrator of over 20 books. Anne Pasternak is an art critic, curator, and the director of the Brooklyn Museum.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Artist Book Foundation
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 173298641X
• ISBN 13: 9781732986411
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne