Lois Dodd

Lois Dodd

By Faye Hirsch

£49.99

Publication Date: 6th October 2017

  • A timely study of the paintings of East-Coast American artist Lois Dodd (b.1927)
  • Based on extensive studio visits and interviews with Dodd, a pioneer of the postwar art scene of downtown New York City
This monograph on the paintings of Lois Dodd provides invaluable analysis and contextualisation of her work alongside such New York City contemporaries as Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein and other denizens of the Tenth Street milieu of the 1950s. Emerging from the shadow of Abstract Expressionism, Dodd and this circle clung to a realism based in the early modernist tradition.

Beginning in the 1950s, Lois Dodd has steadfastly pursued her observational painting, remaining aloof from passing trends. She is widely admired as a ‘painter’s painter’ whose landscapes and city scenes displ... Read More
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  • A timely study of the paintings of East-Coast American artist Lois Dodd (b.1927)
  • Based on extensive studio visits and interviews with Dodd, a pioneer of the postwar art scene of downtown New York City
This monograph on the paintings of Lois Dodd provides invaluable analysis and contextualisation of her work alongside such New York City contemporaries as Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein and other denizens of the Tenth Street milieu of the 1950s. Emerging from the shadow of Abstract Expressionism, Dodd and this circle clung to a realism based in the early modernist tradition.

Beginning in the 1950s, Lois Dodd has steadfastly pursued her observational painting, remaining aloof from passing trends. She is widely admired as a ‘painter’s painter’ whose landscapes and city scenes displ... Read More