Donald Sultan - Hardcover

Sultan, Donald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810915138 ISBN 13: 9780810915138

Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1987

Synopsis

45 illustrations, including 22 plates in color.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

This catalogue of a traveling-exhibition opening this fall at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art highlights the work of an artist who constructs his own canvases from butyl roofing material and vinyl tiles. Sultan is steeped in Manet, the Old Masters and billboard art; his clever work is essentially painting about painting, and as such, insular and aloof. He portrays industrial smokestacks as if they were the stems of flowers. Using newspaper photographs of a plane crash or a guerrilla bombing, he creates semiabstract paintings of public events, ambiguous in meaning. In pictures like Steers, Cypress Trees and Cantaloupe Pickers, he goes after the essence of his subjects through reductionist patterning. Colorful lemons and tulips are full of erotic associations. Yet, in Black Lemons and Black Tulipstark, charcoal-on-paper drawingshis art takes a conceptual turn.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0810915138
• ISBN 13: 9780810915138
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112