Billy Morrow Jackson, Interpretations of Time and Light - Howard E. Wooden,

interpretations of time and light

KORTE INHOUD

From dust jacket notes: "Billy Morrow Jackson, a contemporary American 'realist' and one of the leading landscape artists of the Midwest, is widely recognized as a painter of light. Anyone who picks up this book and looks at Jackson's collected oeuvre will see that light is his medium - it shines, sparkles, casts shadows, flirts, illuminates, and carresses his works. Here are nearly a hundred stunning reproductions (three-quarters in full color) of many of the Illinois prairie landscapes, and well as the cityscapes, townscapes, interior views, works with social and political themes, and murals done by Jackson over the past forty years, all of them reflecting his fascination with the subtle yet pervasive impact of time and light on art and on life. Howard Wooden surveys Jackson's stylistic and technical development as an artist, beginning with his early black-and-white woodblock prints executed in Mexico in 1949 and 1950 and ending with three large murals painted in the late 1980s, one of which adorns the Illi...
1990Taal: Engelszie alle details...

Categorie

Details

1990Uitgever: Univ of Illinois,147 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0252017358ISBN-13: 9780252017353

REVIEWS VAN DIT BOEK