The Art of Joan Brown

The Art of Joan Brown

Author: Karen Tsujimoto

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780520214699

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Examines the California artist's life and work, offering reproductions of many of her pieces


Joan Brown

Joan Brown

Author: Janet Bishop

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2022-11-19

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 0520391969

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"This exhibition catalog accompanies a retrospective exhibition of prolific San Francisco-born painter Joan Brown (1938-1990), the first significant survey of her work in more than twenty years. Joan Brown charts the turns and devotions of a vision that was once dismissed by critics as unserious but was in fact rooted firmly in research and impassioned curiosity that remains uniquely compelling today. Deeply embedded in the Bay Area art scene, Brown drew inspiration from many sources to create a charmingly offbeat body of work that merges autobiography, fantasy, and whimsy with weightier metaphysical and spiritual imagery and themes. Featuring texts by curators Janet Bishop and Nancy Lim as well as essays by Solomon Adler, Marci Kwon, and Helen Molesworth, this lavishly illustrated book establishes Brown's relationship to the self and family, to art history, and to her wider artistic community, while examining the unique materiality of her paintings and exploring her singular vision. In addition, select Brown works will be paired with commentaries by contemporary artists ranging from friends and peers, such as Ron Nagle, to younger artists inspired by her work, such as Woody De Othello"--


Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965

Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965

Author: Caroline A. Jones

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9780520068421

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"Should be the classic, central, definitive work on the emergence of Bay Area Figurative painting."--Paul Mills, author of The New Figurative Painting of David Park


Women of Abstract Expressionism

Women of Abstract Expressionism

Author: Joan Marter

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2016-01-01

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0300208421

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This publication contains a survey of female abstract expressionist artists, revealing the richness and lasting influence of their work and the movement as a whole as well as highlighting the lack of critical attention they have received to date.


Welcome to Painterland

Welcome to Painterland

Author: Anastasia Aukeman

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2016-08-09

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 0520289455

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The Rat Bastard ProtectiveÊAssociation was an inflammatory, close-knit community of artists who livedÊand worked in aÊbuilding they dubbed Painterland in the Fillmore neighborhood of midcentury San Francisco. The artists who counted themselves among the RatÊBastardsÑwhich included Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo,ÊWallyÊHedrick, Michael McClure, and Manuel NeriÑexhibited a unique fusion of radicalism,Êprovocation, and community. Geographically isolated from a viable art market and refusingÊto conform to institutional expectations, theyÊanimated broader social andÊartistic discussions through their work and became aÊtransformative part of American culture over time. Anastasia Aukeman presents new and little-known archival material in this authorized account of these artists and their circle, a colorful cultural milieu that intersected with the broader Beat scene.


Art of Engagement

Art of Engagement

Author: Peter Selz

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2006-01-09

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0520240529

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'Art of Engagement' focuses on the key role of California's art and artists in politics and culture since 1945. The book showcases many types of media, including photographs, found objects, drawings and prints, murals, painting, sculpture, ceramics, installations, performance art, and collage.


The Not-So-Still Life

The Not-So-Still Life

Author: Susan Landauer

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2003-11-10

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9780520239388

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"Presenting, interpreting, and celebrating the world-renowned and the lesser-known California artists who have uniquely defined and redefined the still life, this volume offers an exploration of the sensual pleasures, the aesthetic challenges, and the intellectual and perceptual associations of a century of art through the prism of a single genre."--BOOK JACKET.


Identity Unknown

Identity Unknown

Author: Donna Seaman

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2017-02-14

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 1620407604

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An award-winning writer rescues seven first-rate twentieth-century women artists from oblivion--their lives fascinating, their artwork a revelation. Who hasn't wondered where-aside from Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo-all the women artists are? In many art books, they've been marginalized with cold efficiency, summarily dismissed in the captions of group photographs with the phrase "identity unknown" while each male is named. Donna Seaman brings to dazzling life seven of these forgotten artists, among the best of their day: Gertrude Abercrombie, with her dark, surreal paintings and friendships with Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Rollins; Bay Area self-portraitist Joan Brown; Ree Morton, with her witty, oddly beautiful constructions; Loïs Mailou Jones of the Harlem Renaissance; Lenore Tawney, who combined weaving and sculpture when art and craft were considered mutually exclusive; Christina Ramberg, whose unsettling works drew on pop culture and advertising; and Louise Nevelson, an art-world superstar in her heyday but omitted from recent surveys of her era. These women fought to be treated the same as male artists, to be judged by their work, not their gender or appearance. In brilliant, compassionate prose, Seaman reveals what drove them, how they worked, and how they were perceived by others in a world where women were subjects-not makers-of art. Featuring stunning examples of the artists' work, Identity Unknown speaks to all women about their neglected place in history and the challenges they face to be taken as seriously as men no matter what their chosen field-and to all men interested in women's lives.


Utopia and Dissent

Utopia and Dissent

Author: Richard Candida-Smith

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1996-12-27

Total Pages: 574

ISBN-13: 9780520206991

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"The most important study of art in California, particularly in terms of avant-garde activity around mid-century, that I am aware of."--Paul Karlstrom, Smithsonian Institution