One of the most original artists working today, San Francisco based Ron Nagle (born 1939) the enfant terrible of abstract expressionist ceramics has made stunning, colorful, entirely unique small clay sculptures since the 1950s. In his sculpture, Nagle mixes allusions to modernism, middlebrow culture and the special pop sensibility of Northern California, making ceramic vessels no bigger than a few inches that draw on everything from Japanese tea ceremonies to Krazy Kat. Made with an overarching sense of playfulness and ...
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One of the most original artists working today, San Francisco based Ron Nagle (born 1939) the enfant terrible of abstract expressionist ceramics has made stunning, colorful, entirely unique small clay sculptures since the 1950s. In his sculpture, Nagle mixes allusions to modernism, middlebrow culture and the special pop sensibility of Northern California, making ceramic vessels no bigger than a few inches that draw on everything from Japanese tea ceremonies to Krazy Kat. Made with an overarching sense of playfulness and linguistic humor, a bodily and architectural sensibility, and Nagle's keen attention to color, these finely tuned, pitch-perfect sculptures condense sensory pleasure into perfect packages of experience and feeling. Their miniature scale makes these odd, elegant, sensual and sometimes abject little abstract sculptures endlessly charming models for the imagination. Lushly illustrated, Ron Nagle: Handsome Drifter is the most comprehensive and scholarly publication on the artist to date, with essays by curator Apsara DiQuinzio and Berlin-based art critic and theorist Jan Verwoert. A lively conversation about Nagle's studio practice and unique process with curator and director Dan Byers of Harvard's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts rounds out this unmissable book.
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Edition:
2020, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Add this copy of Ron Nagle: Handsome Drifter to cart. $166.25, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2020 by University of California, Berk.
Edition:
2020, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Add this copy of Ron Nagle: Handsome Drifter to cart. $337.85, new condition, Sold by Half Moon Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Kingston, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2020 by University of California, Berkel.
Edition:
2020, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive