Contributions

  • Deborah J. Haynes - Foreword

Publication

2013-10-01 - Pressed Wafer, New York, NY, USA

Language

English

Word Count

39,750 words, Guess

Page Count

159 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL28200096M
  • ISBN-139781940396019
  • ISBN-101940396018
  • OCLC Control Number866619077
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Classifications

  • LCCND237.D463 B35 2013

Alternate Titles

  • The Shape of Knowing

Description

Art & Art Writing. With a foreword by Deborah J. Haynes, and copiously illustrated. This is the first book to appear on the late New York Porfiro DiDonna. In clear, straightforward prose John Baker, a friend of DiDonna's, surveys his life and art. Porfiro DiDonna died too early at the age of forty-four in 1986. THE SHAPE OF KNOWING comes out of Baker's over thirty-five year devotion to DiDonna's work. Here is a painter who dreamt of being a religious artist and who pursued his vision with near monkish discipline. Baker's portrait of this underappreciated artist is intimate and affectionate and, when it comes to DiDonna's work, broad, up close and celebratory. Michael Russem has given this book a design worthy of DiDonna's art and Baker's scrupulous attention to the artist's marks.

Subjects

Topics

People

Porfirio DiDonna (1942-1986)

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