Of Dogs and Other People : The Art of Roy De Forest, Hardcover by Landauer, S...

Description: Of Dogs and Other People : The Art of Roy De Forest, Hardcover by Landauer, Susan; Duncan, Michael (INT), ISBN 0520292200, ISBN-13 9780520292208, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "Roy De Forest's brightly colored, crazy-quilted jungles dotted with nipples of paint and inhabited by a cast of characters uniquely his own (a perennial favorite being his wild-eyed, pointy-eared dogs) appeal to a broad spectrum of viewers from young toold, from the casual visitor to the most sophisticated art aficionado. OMCA's project aims to reassess De Forest's art-historical position, placing him in a national rather than solely regional/West Coast context. Landauer positions De Forest as part of a bicoastal alternative current of American art that has been poorly documented and deliberately ran counter to better publicized tendencies of the 1960s and 1970s, notably Pop, Minimalism, and post-painterly abstraction. Despite the playfulness of his work, close study of De Forest's art reveals deep layers of meaning. He was a fan of popular science fiction and adventure stories, but he was also well versed in Australian aboriginal art, ukiyo-e prints, poetry, literature, and the history of philosophy. He enjoyed secreting obscure art-historical references into his work: animals might assume postures found in Medieval or Renaissance art, or a drawing that appears to depict a comic-book character may in fact refer to Titian's triple-headed allegory of Prudence. This engaging publication presents gorgeous color reproductions of 150 of De Forest's finest artworks, plus a variety of figure illustrations that illuminate the artist's diverse sources and freewheeling social and creative milieu in Northern California."--Provided by publisher.

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Book Title: Of Dogs and Other People : the Art of Roy De Forest

Number of Pages: 200 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: University of California Press

Topic: Individual Artists / General, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, General, Artists, Architects, Photographers, Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals

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Publication Year: 2017

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Genre: Art, Biography & Autobiography

Item Weight: 47.1 Oz

Author: Susan Landauer

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Format: Hardcover