MBR: The Artbook Shelf
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Gene Kloss Etchings
Phillips Kloss
Sunstone Press
Box 2321, Santa Fe, NM 87504-2321
0865340080 $45.00 sunstonepress.com
Gene Kloss Etchings is a superbly presented and memorable collection of
impressive black-and-white art pieces by Taos, New Mexico-based artist Gene
Kloss showcasing the spirit of the southwest, -- especially its Native American
cultural traditions. Moving images enhanced with brief yet thoughtful
commentary by the artist's poet husband Phillips Kloss fill this pages of this
spellbinding and enthusiastically recommended artbook from cover to cover.
Edwin Dickinson: Dreams And Realities
Douglas Dreishpoon, et al.
Hudson Hills Press/NBN, dist.
PO Box 205, 74-2 Union Street, Manchester, VT 05254
1555952143 $50.00 hudsonhills.com
The collaborative effort of Douglas Dreishpoon (Curator of 20th-Century art,
Albright-Knox Art Gallery), Mary Ellen Abell (Assistant Professor, Dowling
College, Oakdale, New York), and independent American art historian and expert
Francis V. O'Connor, Edwin Dickinson: Dreams And Realities showcases the life
and work of Edwin Dickinson (1891-1978), a representational painter best known
for his abstract expressionist landscapes, nudes, and still life paintings. An
informative monograph details Dickinson's more than 35 years as a very highly
regarded and influential American painter. Profusely illustrated with 72 full
color reproductions and 91 black/white illustrations, Edwin Dickinson: Dreams
And Realities is a quite welcome and very highly recommended addition to
academic, personal, and professional Art History reference collections.
Arthur Giardelli
Derek Shiel
Seren Books
c/o Dufour Editions, Inc.
Box 7, Chester Springs, PA 19425-0007
1854112384 $54.95 1-800-869-5677
Arthur Giardelli: Paintings, Constructions, Relief Sculptures is a history and
showcase of the art of Arthur Giardelli, born in 1911, an artist whose
sometimes free-flowing work is colored by surrealism, constructivism, organic
abstraction and his abiding faith in God. Highlighting both two- and
three-dimensional artworks with black-and-white and color photographs, Arthur
Giardelli: Paintings, Constructions, Relief Sculptures focuses especially upon
lengthy and detailed conversations painter, sculptor, writer, and scholar Derek
Shiel shared with Arthur Giardelli, which provide the reader with a truly
in-depth and personal perspective upon Giardelli's moving works. Arthur
Giardelli is specially recommended for art historians and connoisseurs with a
particular interested in learning about the "how and why" of a great 20th
century artist's life and creative processes.
Big Bend Landscapes
Dennis Blagg
Texas A&M University Press
4354 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843
158544202X $44.00 1-800-826-8911
Big Bend Landscapes by Texas painter Dennis Blagg is a breathtaking,
coffee-table artbook of oil on canvas landscapes so captivating, they seize and
hold one's attention as surely as the finest of photographs. Mood, mystery,
natural serenity in the Big Bend National Park of Texas fill these compiled
outdoor paintings austere mountains and dry deserts with a very special dignity
and beauty. A joy to simply page through at leisure, each individual painting
is enhanced with a brief but informative commentary in this outstanding and
memorable collection.
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