Richard Diebenkorn in New Mexico
by Gerald Nordland, Mark Lavatelli, Charles Strong
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Author: Charles Strong, Gerald Nordland, Mark LavatelliForeword: Charles Muir Lovell
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-05-30
ISBN: 0890134987
Number of pages: 153
Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Pr
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Book Review: Excellent look at period less covered
Summary: 5 Stars
This compilation of text, 83 large scale plates and 21 additional reproductions provides an excellent look at a key period in the development of Richard Diebenkorn which is brushed by more quickly (and in each case with only a dozen reproductions) in the two major monographs on the artist by Nordland and Livingston. There are three essays, one quite brief, that could be read in less than 30 minutes were it not for the constant urge to study the large, full page color plate of the works discussed in each paragraph. Helpfully, one of the writers even includes small, supplemental reproductions of each piece adjacent to the paragraph in which the piece is discussed (in addition to the 104 other color illustrations listed above).
If you admire Diebenkorn's work, you are understandably going to focus on his figurative or his Ocean Park periods. But as auction prices demonstrate ($6 million for a 1955 Berkeley abstract piece in Nov., 2006), his earlier work at Albuquerque, Urbana and Berkeley are now being recognized as not only crucial stages of his growth but also as meaningful abstract expressionist works in their own right, influenced not just by personal interaction with Still, Rothko and Hassel Smith at the San Francisco Art Institute (then the CSFA) but also by shows of work by Gorky, de Kooning and others he was able to visit before or during his years at Albuquerque.
The book is large scale and the reproductions are of unusually high quality. After Nordland and Livingston, this is a "must have", along with the Elderfield's paperback of his drawings for his MOMA show.
Summary of Richard Diebenkorn in New Mexico
Internationally acclaimed artist Richard Diebenkorn lived in Albuquerque from 1950-1952, where he executed an impressive body of more than a hundred paintings, drawings, and welded-metal sculpture. Until recently much of Diebenkorn's New Mexico work remained forgotten. With his coming to New Mexico, Diebenkorn moved toward a kind of painting that, although rigorous and considered, emits energies of freedom, freshness, and spontaneity and has inferences of landscape. This book presents for the first time a comprehensive overview of this New Mexico period, and investigates the critical role it played in Diebenkorn's exploration of the idiom of abstraction and the maturation of his art. It also demonstrates how New Mexico's desert landscape and light affected Diebenkorn's artistic route toward figurative painting and the landscape-inspired abstractions of his greatly acclaimed "Ocean Park" series. Companion to an exhibition to open at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos, New Mexico, this book offers not only stunning reproductions of the artist's work but also important new research into the life of one of the creative giants of the second half of the twentieth century. It is published in association with the Harwood Museum of Art.Artists, A-Z Books
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