Author : Rosemarie Beck
Release : 2018
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 198/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rosemarie Beck: Letters to a Young Painter and Other Writings by : Rosemarie Beck
Download or read book Rosemarie Beck: Letters to a Young Painter and Other Writings written by Rosemarie Beck. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. Art. Rosemarie Beck (1923-2003) emerged from the second generation of Abstract Expressionists, though her tenure as an abstract painter was brief. By 1958, she had moved completely away from non-objective painting into figuration, a decision that would alter the course of her career. In addition to her five decades of visual work, Beck left behind volumes of letters, journals, and essays on art--ranging from formal analysis of the canon, her own work, and the works of her peers to LETTERS TO A YOUNG PAINTER, an epistolary lecture project. In the writings gathered here, Beck approaches her subjects in the same manner as she would have approached a complex narrative painting: through a richly textured combination of literary allusion, metaphor, direct observation, and autobiography. ROSEMARIE BECK: LETTERS TO A YOUNG PAINTER AND OTHER WRITINGS brings together a selection of Beck's writings for the first time, situating her distinctive voice within the milieu of mid-century artist-writers.
