Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery

格特鲁德·阿伯克龙比 世界皆谜

✦产品信息——

出版社 ‏ : ‎ DelMonico Books (2025年 2月 18日)

语言 ‏ : ‎ 英语

精装 ‏ : ‎ 224页

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1636811558

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1636811550

商品重量 ‏ : ‎ 1.56 Kilograms

尺寸 ‏ : ‎ 24.21 x 2.39 x 30.81 cm

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

✦内容简介——

这是一场制作精良的回顾展，旨在纪念深受喜爱但作品较少的芝加哥超现实主义画家 Gertrude Abercrombie，她被称为“波西米亚艺术家的女王”

这本书是关于芝加哥艺术家 Gertrude Abercrombie 的权威学术著作，她是 20 世纪中叶芝加哥艺术和爵士乐界的重要人物。Abercrombie 是一位具有独特视野的创作力量，从 20 世纪 30 年代到 1977 年去世，她创作了充满个人意义的神秘画作。她用灵巧的手、简洁的象征词汇和克制的色调创作出强有力的图像，这些图像反映了她善变的性格和她作为一名艺术家不断发展的心理。猫、猫头鹰、门、月亮、光秃秃的树木、贝壳和探索的女性形象都汇聚在她的神秘作品中，这些作品表明了她一生都在进行有目的的内省和情感斗争。Abercrombie 一直以她的梦作为素材，她说：“整个世界都是一个谜。”

《格特鲁德·阿伯克龙比：整个世界都是个谜》是这位艺术家自 1991 年以来的首次回顾展的配套作品：这场同名展览始于匹兹堡的卡内基艺术博物馆，随后前往缅因州的科尔比学院艺术博物馆和密尔沃基艺术博物馆。

A sumptuously produced retrospective on the beloved and under-published Chicago-based Surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie, the "queen of the bohemian artists"

This book is the definitive scholarly volume on Chicago artist Gertrude Abercrombie, who was a critical figure in the midcentury Chicago art and jazz scenes. Abercrombie was a creative force of singular vision who, from the 1930s until her death in 1977, produced enigmatic paintings full of personal significance. With a deft hand, a concise symbolic vocabulary and a restrained palette, she produced potent images that speak to her mercurial nature and her evolving psychology as an artist. Cats, owls, doors, moons, barren trees, seashells and searching female figures all converge in her mysterious works, which suggest a life of purposeful introspection and emotional struggle. Drawing consistently on her dreams as source material, Abercrombie said, "The whole world is a mystery."

Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery accompanies the artist’s first retrospective since 1991: an eponymous exhibition which begins at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh before traveling to the Colby College Museum of Art in Maine and the Milwaukee Art Museum.

✦作者简介——

格特鲁德·阿伯克龙比于 1909 年出生于德克萨斯州奥斯汀，一生大部分时间在芝加哥度过，从 20 世纪 30 年代初开始全身心投入艺术创作。她的作品部分灵感来自爵士乐，她经常举办传奇派对和即兴演奏会，经常有偶像参加，比如她的密友迪兹·吉莱斯皮。她于 1977 年在芝加哥去世，享年 68 岁。

Gertrude Abercrombie was born in 1909 in Austin, Texas, and spent most of her life in Chicago, focusing on her art full time beginning in the early 1930s. Her work was in part inspired by jazz, and she was the host of legendary parties and jam sessions frequented by icons such as Dizzy Gillespie, who was a close friend. She died in Chicago in 1977, at age 68.