Carmen Cicero: Drawings and Watercolors

卡门西塞罗 素描和水彩画

✦产品信息——

出版商 ‏ : Abbeville Press Inc. (2024 年 10 月)

语言 ‏ : 英语

精装本 : ‎ 208页

ISBN-10 ‏: ‎ 0789214911

ISBN-13 ‏: ‎ 978-0789214911

尺寸 ‏ : ‎ 20 x 14 x 1 厘米

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

✦内容简介——

本书以精美的超大开本形式，专门介绍卡门·西塞罗那神秘而又发人深省的素描和水彩画。

卡门·西塞罗（生于 1926 年）现正处于当代艺术的前沿，已步入职业生涯的第七个十年。他 1950 年代的作品由现代艺术博物馆、古根海姆博物馆、惠特尼博物馆和其他主要博物馆收藏，融合了抽象表现主义的风格和超现实主义自动化的复杂形式。1960 年代，西塞罗是美国先锋派中回归具象艺术的成员之一，在 1960 和 1970 年代，他一直追求一种他称之为“具象表现主义”的风格。这演变成他最近的“幻想”模式，他以惊人的清晰度描绘出神秘的场景，这些场景充满了多种矛盾的感受——未实现的欲望、嫉妒、绝望和孤独——以及大量的幽默。在他的整个艺术发展过程中，素描和水彩画一直是西塞罗创作的核心，使他能够以生动的即时性表达出丰富的想象力。这本超大开本的书籍展示了西塞罗职业生涯各个阶段的大量素描和水彩画作品；它印在优质的无涂层纸上，让人想起这位艺术家喜欢的 Arches 水彩纸，许多画作都是按实际尺寸复制的。评论家大卫·埃博尼 (David Ebony) 的一篇文章展现了西塞罗艺术的幽默、悲情和精湛的技巧，而包括艺术家陈述、年表和参考书目在内的全套资料进一步增加了这部作品的价值，它将成为任何美国艺术图书馆的藏品。

The first book devoted to the enigmatic and thought-provoking drawings and watercolours of Carmen Cicero ― in a handsome oversize format.

Carmen Cicero (b. 1926) is now in the midst of his seventh decade at the cutting edge of contemporary art. His works of the 1950s ― collected by the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Whitney, and other major museums ― combined the gestures of Abstract Expressionism with the complex emergent forms of Surrealist automatism. In the 1960s, Cicero was one of the first members of the American avant-garde to return to figuration, pursuing, through the 1960s and 1970s, a style he called “figurative expressionism.” This evolved into his more recent “visionary” mode, in which he depicts, with a startling clarity, mysterious scenes animated by multiple contradictory feelings ― unfulfilled desires, jealousy, despair, and isolation ― as well as a generous dose of humour. Throughout his entire artistic evolution, drawing and watercolour have remained central to Cicero’s practice, allowing him to body forth his fertile imaginings with a vivid immediacy. This oversize volume presents a generous selection of drawings and watercolours from every stage of Cicero’s career; it is printed on a quality uncoated stock that recalls the artist’s favoured Arches watercolour paper, and many of the drawings are reproduced at actual size. An essay by the noted critic David Ebony brings out the humour, pathos, and consummate skill of Cicero’s art, and a full apparatus ― including an artist’s statement, chronology, and bibliography ― further add to the value of this work, which will be an essential addition to any library of American art.