Philip Taaffe

By:

John Yau

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Contemporary Painters Series

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This book presents a comprehensive view of the work of American painter Philip Taaffe (b.1955), who has expanded the parameters of painting through his use of silkscreen, linocuts, collage, stencils, gouache, chine-collé, marbling, acrylic, enamel, watercolour and gold leaf. Possessing many technical skills, Taaffe has moved decisively between unique pictorial inventions and appropriations, as well as overlaying divergent modes of representation, through cultural patterns found in ornament, and biomorphic abstraction. John Yau's insightful text is the first to look at every part of Taaffe's artistic development, from the works he made at Cooper Union while a student of Hans Haacke, to the present. It pays special attention to Taaffe's acquisition of different techniques, as well as investigating his various sources of inspiration, which include the work of experimental filmmakers Stan Brakhage, Bruce Conner and Harry Smith, the Natural History illustrations of Ernst Haeckel, and the ancient art of paper marbling.

Author Biography:

John Yau is an award-winning poet, art critic and curator who has published many books of poetry, fiction and art criticism. He is the author of a volume on American painter Thomas Nozkowski for the Lund Humphries Contemporary Painters Series.

Release date Australia

April 2nd, 2018

Author

John Yau

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

110 Illustrations, color

Pages

144

Series

Contemporary Painters Series

ISBN-13

9781848222632

Product ID

27193420

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