Publication

2018 - Cheim & Read

Language

English

Word Count

33,500 words, Guess

Page Count

134 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781944316082
  • ISBN-101944316086
  • OCLC Control Number1002131527
  • Better World Books9781944316082
  • Better World BooksP8-AKV-483
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCND237.F445A4 2017
  • LCCND237.F445 A4 2017

Description

If good painting is what you want to do, then good painting is what you must look at," New York-based painter Louise Fishman (born 1939) wrote in a 1977 issue of Heresies. "Take what you want and leave the dreck." Fishman is renowned for her subtractive method of mark-making, which celebrates process and rejects the masculinist impulses of abstract expressionism. She uses scrapers, trowels and traditional brushes to apply and remove dense layers of paint in loose, gestural scores across the canvas. Fishman's training as a sculptor is visible in the physicality of her paint, which is vigorously applied, indexing her movement about the canvas. This comprehensive clothbound monograph spans the evolution of Fishman's practice over the last 60 years of the artist's extensive oeuvre. The fully illustrated volume includes two newly commissioned essays by Debra Singer and Josephine Halvorson, with republished essays by Aruna D'Souza, Andrew Suggs, Suzan Frecon, Bertha Harris and John Yau.

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  • Louise FishmanCheim & Read2018

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