<p>Third Edition/1972. Outside dust cover a bit aged, but inside is great-no markings, in very good condition.</p>

Purposes of Art. An introduction to the history and appreciation of art. Third edition.

Elsen, Albert

New York Holt, Rinehart and Winston

<p>Paul Jenkins is a master of color. In his canvases, radiant colors swirl, fuse, divide, recede, and float in exquisite combinations. Since the early 1960s, when he developed his unique style, Jenkins has been one of America's foremost artists. In this first full-scale volume on the artist, Albert E. Elsen, distinguished art historian and Professor of Art History at Stanford University, has drawn on Jenkins's diaries and on numerous conversations with him to create a fully rounded view of the man and his work. "In writing about a living artist," he says, "the historian must remind himself that he should ask questions such as those we would like to have had answered by artists of the past, before the recording of art history." While there is no subject matter in Jenkins's paintings, there is a constant search for meaning expressed within the terms of the medium itself, and for ways to paint something that is there but cannot be seen except through the experience of painting. This importance to Jenkins of conceptual content sets him apart from other contemporary colorists. Jenkins's comments on older art illuminate what he seeks to accomplish: "Two kinds of light have always drawn me. The light of Georges de La Tour, which seems to radiate from the painting, and that reflected light which was most evident in Turner's imagination. From these two sources--reflection and radiation--I have tried to achieve a kind of form in its own discovered space, a kind of light which reveals itself from within, while the reflected element affirms itself from without." With 171 illustrations, including 56 hand-tipped plates in full color.</p>

Paul Jenkins

Abrams

From Introduction:  "From ancient Egypt to the present, bronze casting has had a continuous history if one remembers the great traditions of Asia as well as the West. Then and now bronze has signified permanence and faithful reproduction of the impermanent. Until after the Renaissance, cast bronze was left in its natural state. Bronze patination became customary practice by the early 19th century with black, brown, green and sometimes blue patinas being used cosmetically to mask the scars of casting and chasing. Except for Barye, 19th century sculptors such as Rodin left the casting and finishing process to artisans. Too often forgotten is that for the first fifty years of this century bronze was the material most used by the major modern sculptors. Brancusi invented the high polished surface, and Archipenko invented polychromed patinas. Picasso painted an edition of bronzes in 1914. Gaudier Brzeska and Gonzalez carved small solid bronzes. Matisse, Maillol, Lipchitz, Giacometti and Henry Moore produced much of their best work in bronze before 1950. Bronze editions encouraged their world renown. In America as well as in Europe, bronze sculpture has survived the challenges of abstraction and constructivism, direct carving and welding, assemblage and earthworks. In the past decade inspired by more and venturesome foundries, artists previously uninvolved with bronze, such as Nancy Graves, have discovered its strength in supporting aerial configurations and the otherwise unstable. Paint as well as patination applied to bronze attracts painters as well as sculptors such as Manuel Neri. It is a noble but also democratic material that faithfully reproduces the modeled and carved, the intimately yet impersonally formed."--Albert Elsen

Casting: A survey of cast metal sculpture in the 80's : July 8-August 28, 1982

Fuller Goldeen Gallery

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Purposes of Art. An introduction to the history and appreciation of art. Third edition.

Paul Jenkins

Casting: A survey of cast metal sculpture in the 80's : July 8-August 28, 1982