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Author: Nancy Boas
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 1.043kg
ISBN: 9780520268418
ISBN 10: 0520268415
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 17 March 2012
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
A welcome volume. --Los Angeles Times Just as Park put the humanity back into an era of abstraction, Boas brings David Park the man into the foreground in a literary and historical sense. --Huffington Post An enthralling read. --San Francisco Magazine [A project] put together with care. --San Francisco Chronicle [David Park's] bold colors and everyday subjects helped usher in a new modernism. --Berkeleyside
The first full biographical portrait, not a memoir, of Park (1911-1960), the reticent founder of Bay Area Figuration, the region's only modern art movement so far to win global recognition. -- Kenneth Baker San Francisco Chronicle Even insiders who thought they knew this complicated artist will know him far better thanks to Boas. San Francisco Chronicle Just as Park put the humanity back into an era of abstraction, Boas brings David Park the man into the foreground in a literary and historical sense. Huffington Post A welcome volume. Los Angeles Times [Boas's] passion shows in how persuasively she argues for a wider recognition of Park's importance. Art Critical Shows how Park conferred a human presence on the painting of his time, influencing artists such as Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff. San Jose Mercury News An enthralling read. San Francisco Magazine [David Park's] bold colors and everyday subjects helped usher in a new modernism. Berkeleyside [A project] put together with care. San Francisco Chronicle
"""The first full biographical portrait, not a memoir, of Park (1911-1960), the reticent founder of Bay Area Figuration, the region's only modern art movement so far to win global recognition."" -- Kenneth Baker San Francisco Chronicle ""Even insiders who thought they knew this complicated artist will know him far better thanks to Boas."" San Francisco Chronicle ""Just as Park put the humanity back into an era of abstraction, Boas brings David Park the man into the foreground in a literary and historical sense."" Huffington Post ""A welcome volume."" Los Angeles Times ""[Boas's] passion shows in how persuasively she argues for a wider recognition of Park's importance."" Art Critical ""Shows how Park conferred a human presence on the painting of his time, influencing artists such as Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff."" San Jose Mercury News ""An enthralling read."" San Francisco Magazine ""[David Park's] bold colors and everyday subjects helped usher in a new modernism."" Berkeleyside ""[A project] put together with care."" San Francisco Chronicle"
Author Information
Nancy Boas is the author of The Society of Six: California Colorists (UC Press) and a contributor to the exhibition and catalog Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area (UC Press). She was Adjunct Curator of American Paintings at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and co-curated the exhibition California Colorists: Paintings by the Society of Six.
