Donald Sultan - Softcover

Ian Dunlop; Lynne Warren

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0933856261 ISBN 13: 9780933856264

Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1987

Synopsis

The catalogue of an exhibition held at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, September 12 - November 8, 1987 and x other locations. With 45 illustrations, 22 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: Museum of Contemporary Art
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0933856261
• ISBN 13: 9780933856264
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112