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Elmer Bischoff : the ethics of paint / Susan Landauer ; with an introduction by Bill Berkson

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Landauer, Susan

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press ; Oakland : Oakland Museum, c2001Description: 210 p. : illus. ; 29 cmISBN:

9790520230421

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DDC classification:

759.13 BIS 21

Summary: Elmer Bischoff is generally regarded as one of the leaders among the artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who, after contributing to the local emergence of Abstract Expressionism during the 1940s and 50s, shifted the terms of their spectacularly sensuous brushwork to recognizable imagery. Bill Berkson writes that if "David Park was the classicist of the founding triad of the Bay Area Figurative painters, and Richard Diebenkorn the modernist, Bischoff was the romantic." Designed to accompany a major retrospective of Bischoff's work, this superb volume is lavishly illustrated with duotones and color plates that faithfully capture the subtle variations in shade that characterize the painter's oeuvre. Berkson and Susan Landauer, both of whom knew Bischoff, provide the definitive view of the life, art, and teaching career of this important artist.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	759.13 BIS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	non fiction		013727

Exhibition held at the Oakland Museum of California, Oct. 31, 2001-Jan. 13, 2001, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, Calif., Feb. 15-June 2, 2002, and at the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Fla., Oct.17, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-204) and index.

Elmer Bischoff is generally regarded as one of the leaders among the artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who, after contributing to the local emergence of Abstract Expressionism during the 1940s and 50s, shifted the terms of their spectacularly sensuous brushwork to recognizable imagery. Bill Berkson writes that if "David Park was the classicist of the founding triad of the Bay Area Figurative painters, and Richard Diebenkorn the modernist, Bischoff was the romantic." Designed to accompany a major retrospective of Bischoff's work, this superb volume is lavishly illustrated with duotones and color plates that faithfully capture the subtle variations in shade that characterize the painter's oeuvre. Berkson and Susan Landauer, both of whom knew Bischoff, provide the definitive view of the life, art, and teaching career of this important artist.

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