The prolific talents of painter Joan Brown (1938-1990) inform every page of this shining testament to a singular artist. For Brown, art was a means of self-revelation and self-investigation, a fact made abundantly clear by the autobiographical nature of her work. In the first book to fully explore Joan Brown's artistic career, Karen Tsujimoto provides an overview of Brown's life from her San Francisco childhood to her years as a mature artist and teacher. Jacquelynn Baas focuses on Brown's use of universal and personal ...
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The prolific talents of painter Joan Brown (1938-1990) inform every page of this shining testament to a singular artist. For Brown, art was a means of self-revelation and self-investigation, a fact made abundantly clear by the autobiographical nature of her work. In the first book to fully explore Joan Brown's artistic career, Karen Tsujimoto provides an overview of Brown's life from her San Francisco childhood to her years as a mature artist and teacher. Jacquelynn Baas focuses on Brown's use of universal and personal symbolism by analyzing one of her most celebrated paintings, The Bride . Both authors make extensive use of interviews that let Joan Brown speak for herself about art and the creative process. Brown greatly admired her teacher, Elmer Bischoff, and his style of Bay Area figuration. But she also was attracted to the freedom found in abstraction as expressed by de Kooning, Picasso, and Matisse. Finding her own way, she used images of family, animals, water, romantic relationships, and self-portraits to explore the complexities of human nature, often hiding her rigorous self-reflection beneath a facade of painterly spontaneity. She had a lifelong interest in philosophy and religion, and much of her later work reflected universal themes and symbols. Serious, full of energy and passion, Brown approached both her personal and her professional life with characteristic intensity. Married four times, she was a devoted mother, a competitive swimmer, and an outspoken opponent of the art world's growing commercialism. Many issues she dealt with early in her career anticipated similar concerns raised by the women's movement in the 1970s. In 1990, while installing an obelisk she had created for the Eternal Heritage Museum in Puttaparthi, India, Joan Brown was instantly killed when a concrete turret fell on her. What lives on in her work is her fascination with the human condition and a determination to record its essence as reflected in her own life.
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Very Good + Quarto, 11 x 8.5 inches, softcover, 272pp, profusely illustrated in color. Book is very good plus with shelfwear to wraps and edges, some soil to fore-edge of text block, pages bright and unmarked, binding tight.
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This item is in overall good condition. Covers and dust jackets are intact but may have minor wear including slight curls or bends to corners as well as cosmetic blemishes including stickers. Pages are intact but may have minor highlighting/ writing. Binding is intact; however, spine may have slight wear overall. Digital codes may not be included and have not been tested to be redeemable and/or active. Minor shelf wear overall. Please note that all items are donated goods and are in used condition. Orders shipped Monday through Friday! Your purchase helps put people to work and learn life skills to reach their full potential. Orders shipped Monday through Friday. Your purchase helps put people to work and learn life skills to reach their full potential. Thank you!
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Very Good. Trade Paperback First edition in stiff wrappers. Book appears unused but does have light foxing/soiling to the top edge. Professional packaging and prompt shipping.
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Fine+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0520214684. An EX LIBRARY copy. For an EX book is Very Fine, tightly bound. A small inked out spot at title page and 2" x 1/2" black felt-tips at top and bottom fore edges, else text block New. DJ Fine with usual LIBRARY tags at spine, no edge wear.; 4to; 272 pages.
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Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Dust jacket in very good condition. First edition, first printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Dust jacket housed in mylar for preservation. Includes photographs to supplement the text. Moderate loosening to binding. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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VG+/VG+: Exlibrary book with a stamp on the top text block and the front free end page. Due date card and stamp on the back free end page. Sticker on the back pasted end page. A gray casebound book. There is a color-illustrated dust jacket, with the title printed in white down a black spine. Mylar jacket. The free and pasted end pages are gray. Pages: (12), xiii-xxxv, (3), 1-272, (2). Profusely illustrated with color images.
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