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| | BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 10 x 12.75 in. / 228 pgs / 160 color / 40 bw. PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 3/1/2007 Out of print DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2007 p. 66 PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9783905770117 TRADE List Price: $55.00 CDN $65.00 AVAILABILITY Not available | | BROWSE THE 2019 FALL CATALOG  Preview our Fall 2019 catalog, featuring more than 500 new books on art, photography, design, architecture, film, music and visual culture. |
|   |   | Laura OwensEdited by Beatrix Ruf. Text by Rod Mangham, Beatrix Ruf, Gloria Sutton. Interviews by Alex Katz, Elizabeth Peyton, Mary Heilmann, Scott Rothkopf.
Laura Owens once said of more doctrinaire painters that "the weight of art history is what gets you…that crusty, stodgy feeling, when you look at a work of art and you feel that the person hasn't stepped outside, hasn't looked in other wings of the Met, hasn't gone to a natural history museum." There is no danger of that in her own good-natured and elegant works, which seem to emulate Rousseau, Grandma Moses and the aesthetics of the 1960s and of vintage decorative arts at once. Robots in the garden, lions, hunters, romance and war are some of the subjects parading through, under passing influences as wide ranging as Dada performance, Japanese prints and Hindu beliefs. Birds grow larger than the trees they perch on, cats sniff at a pair of skulls and monkeys exchange wary glances. Elsewhere, Owens has broken away from the fine arts to move into wallpaper and textiles. Beyond all this straightforward beauty is constant inquiry into her chosen media. She has rejected naturalism in favor of depiction, representation and an unashamed pleasure in ornamentation, which, with her delight in pictorial grace, affords decoration a new dignity. She combines the abstract with the representational in a highly personal vocabulary, from which she creates an elaborate, elegant and quietly exuberant whole. Laura Owens collects the artist's complete works to date.
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| | | | OF RELATED INTEREST |  | Edited by Pieranna Cavalchini. Essays by Jennifer Gross, Anne Hawley, and Russell Ferguson.CHARTAISBN: 9788881583287 USD $21.95 | CAN $25Pub Date: 8/2/2001 Out of print | Not available
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|  | By Thomas Lawson. Artwork by Laura Owens. Edited by Lisa Gabrielle Mark, Paul Schimmel.THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, LOS ANGELESISBN: 9780914357834 USD $24.00 | CAN $27.5Pub Date: 4/2/2003 Out of print | Not available
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| |  | Preface by Stephan Berg. Text by Stefan Gronert, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer.KERBERISBN: 9783866785595 USD $45.00 | CAN $60Pub Date: 4/30/2012 Active | In stock
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FORMAT: Hardcover, 10 x 12.75 in. / 228 pgs / 160 color / 40 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $55.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $65 ISBN: 9783905770117 PUBLISHER: JRP|Ringier AVAILABLE: 3/1/2007 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of print AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: NA LA ASIA AU/NZ AFR ME | D.A.P. CATALOG: SPRING 2007 Page 66 | INFO AS OF: May 14, 2019 | PRESS INQUIRIES
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| Laura Owens Published by JRP|Ringier. Edited by Beatrix Ruf. Text by Rod Mangham, Beatrix Ruf, Gloria Sutton. Interviews by Alex Katz, Elizabeth Peyton, Mary Heilmann, Scott Rothkopf. | Laura Owens once said of more doctrinaire painters that "the weight of art history is what gets you…that crusty, stodgy feeling, when you look at a work of art and you feel that the person hasn't stepped outside, hasn't looked in other wings of the Met, hasn't gone to a natural history museum." There is no danger of that in her own good-natured and elegant works, which seem to emulate Rousseau, Grandma Moses and the aesthetics of the 1960s and of vintage decorative arts at once. Robots in the garden, lions, hunters, romance and war are some of the subjects parading through, under passing influences as wide ranging as Dada performance, Japanese prints and Hindu beliefs. Birds grow larger than the trees they perch on, cats sniff at a pair of skulls and monkeys exchange wary glances. Elsewhere, Owens has broken away from the fine arts to move into wallpaper and textiles. Beyond all this straightforward beauty is constant inquiry into her chosen media. She has rejected naturalism in favor of depiction, representation and an unashamed pleasure in ornamentation, which, with her delight in pictorial grace, affords decoration a new dignity. She combines the abstract with the representational in a highly personal vocabulary, from which she creates an elaborate, elegant and quietly exuberant whole. Laura Owens collects the artist's complete works to date.
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