Philip Taaffe

Philip Taaffe

By John Yau

£49.99

Publication Date: 2nd April 2018

  • The first illustrated monograph to consider the entire career to date of a major US painter 
  • Taaffe's paintings are in the collections of a wide range of public museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Reina Sofia, Madrid 
  • John Yau's perceptive text is based on many conversations with Philip Taaffe and access to the artist's extensive archive, as well as long familiarity with the work itself

This book presents a comprehensive view of the work of American painter Philip Taaffe (b.1955), who has expanded the parameters of painting through his use of silkscreen, linocuts, collage, stencils, gouache, chine-collé, marbling, acrylic, enamel, watercolour and gold leaf. Possessing many technical skills, Taaffe has moved decisively between unique pictorial inventions and appropriations, as well as overlaying divergent modes of representation, through cultural patterns found in ornament, and biomorphic abstraction.

John Yau's insightful text is the first to look at every part of Ta... Read More

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  • The first illustrated monograph to consider the entire career to date of a major US painter 
  • Taaffe's paintings are in the collections of a wide range of public museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Reina Sofia, Madrid 
  • John Yau's perceptive text is based on many conversations with Philip Taaffe and access to the artist's extensive archive, as well as long familiarity with the work itself

This book presents a comprehensive view of the work of American painter Philip Taaffe (b.1955), who has expanded the parameters of painting through his use of silkscreen, linocuts, collage, stencils, gouache, chine-collé, marbling, acrylic, enamel, watercolour and gold leaf. Possessing many technical skills, Taaffe has moved decisively between unique pictorial inventions and appropriations, as well as overlaying divergent modes of representation, through cultural patterns found in ornament, and biomorphic abstraction.

John Yau's insightful text is the first to look at every part of Ta... Read More
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This book presents a comprehensive view of the work of American painter Philip Taaffe (b.1955), who has expanded the parameters of painting through his use of silkscreen, linocuts, collage, stencils, gouache, chine-collé, marbling, acrylic, enamel, watercolour and gold leaf. Possessing many technical skills, Taaffe has moved decisively between unique pictorial inventions and appropriations, as well as overlaying divergent modes of representation, through cultural patterns found in ornament, and biomorphic abstraction.

John Yau's insightful text is the first to look at every part of Taaffe's artistic development, from the works he made at Cooper Union while a student of Hans Haacke, to the present. It pays special attention to Taaffe's acquisition of different techniques, as well as investigating his various sources of inspiration, which include the work of experimental filmmakers Stan Brakhage, Bruce Conner and Harry Smith, the Natural History illustrations of Ernst Haeckel, and the ancient art of paper marbling.

Details
  • Pages: 144
  • Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
  • Series: Contemporary Painters Series
  • Publication Date: 2nd April 2018
  • Trim Size: 24 x 28 cm
  • Illustration Note: Includes 100 colour illustrations
  • ISBN: 9781848222632
Reviews
'Philip Taaffe's paintings spring from the twin root of art history and the natural world. Through a wide range of work, and a self-critical practice, he has pushed abstraction into new realms, holding icons and calligraphy in the same regard as plants, snakes and shells. His work is both expansive and necessary.'
- Brice Marden
'Philip Taaffe's paintings build their own autonomous structure out of a voice and a tone which is deeply personal and uncompromising, but are filled too with strange echoes from the history of art. There is a fearless sense of beauty, a sort of restrained wildness, a willingness to see both ordered pattern and chaotic yearning for possibility and transcendence. His unceasing task for four decades has been to activate space, to test the boundaries to see how much a picture can take.'
- Colm Toibin
Author Bio
John Yau is an award-winning poet, art critic and curator who has published many books of poetry, fiction and art criticism. He is the author of a volume on American painter Thomas Nozkowski for the Lund Humphries Contemporary Painters Series.
Table of Contents
Foreword, Barry Schwabsky; Introduction; The Rise of Conceptual Art, 1972–1977; 2 Early Works, 1977–1985; 3 In Naples, Across from Vesuvius, 1986–1991; 4 An Alternative Worldview, 1990s; 5 A New Century, 2000 to the Present; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Biography; Selected Solo Exhibitions; Selected Group Exhibitions; Selected Public Collections; Acknowledgments; Image Credits; Index

This book presents a comprehensive view of the work of American painter Philip Taaffe (b.1955), who has expanded the parameters of painting through his use of silkscreen, linocuts, collage, stencils, gouache, chine-collé, marbling, acrylic, enamel, watercolour and gold leaf. Possessing many technical skills, Taaffe has moved decisively between unique pictorial inventions and appropriations, as well as overlaying divergent modes of representation, through cultural patterns found in ornament, and biomorphic abstraction.

John Yau's insightful text is the first to look at every part of Taaffe's artistic development, from the works he made at Cooper Union while a student of Hans Haacke, to the present. It pays special attention to Taaffe's acquisition of different techniques, as well as investigating his various sources of inspiration, which include the work of experimental filmmakers Stan Brakhage, Bruce Conner and Harry Smith, the Natural History illustrations of Ernst Haeckel, and the ancient art of paper marbling.

  • Pages: 144
  • Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
  • Series: Contemporary Painters Series
  • Publication Date: 2nd April 2018
  • Trim Size: 24 x 28 cm
  • Illustrations Note: Includes 100 colour illustrations
  • ISBN: 9781848222632
'Philip Taaffe's paintings spring from the twin root of art history and the natural world. Through a wide range of work, and a self-critical practice, he has pushed abstraction into new realms, holding icons and calligraphy in the same regard as plants, snakes and shells. His work is both expansive and necessary.'
– Brice Marden
'Philip Taaffe's paintings build their own autonomous structure out of a voice and a tone which is deeply personal and uncompromising, but are filled too with strange echoes from the history of art. There is a fearless sense of beauty, a sort of restrained wildness, a willingness to see both ordered pattern and chaotic yearning for possibility and transcendence. His unceasing task for four decades has been to activate space, to test the boundaries to see how much a picture can take.'
– Colm Toibin
John Yau is an award-winning poet, art critic and curator who has published many books of poetry, fiction and art criticism. He is the author of a volume on American painter Thomas Nozkowski for the Lund Humphries Contemporary Painters Series.
Foreword, Barry Schwabsky; Introduction; The Rise of Conceptual Art, 1972–1977; 2 Early Works, 1977–1985; 3 In Naples, Across from Vesuvius, 1986–1991; 4 An Alternative Worldview, 1990s; 5 A New Century, 2000 to the Present; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Biography; Selected Solo Exhibitions; Selected Group Exhibitions; Selected Public Collections; Acknowledgments; Image Credits; Index

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