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GARTH GREENAN GALLERY
Art Green: Certain Subjects
Text by John Yau.
For over 35 years, Ontario-based artist and former member of the Hairy Who Art Green (born 1941) has carefully honed his personal iconography—idealized, archetypal images of ice cream cones, wood grain patterns, burning candles, moonlit landscapes and perfectly polished fingernails. This publication traces the development of Green's work from 1975 to 2013.
"Dire Straits" (1979) is reproduced from Art Green: Certain Subjects.
"Circumstantial Evidence" (1977) is reproduced from Certain Subjects, Garth Greenan Gallery's new monograph on Art Green, one of the key members of the Chicago Imagist Hairy Who group. Essayist John Yau concludes, "Conscious of both the beauty and monstrousness of reality, of the illusions and deceptions embedded throughout experience, Green refuses to end his inquiry into the nature of perception. It is a refusal born out of a stubborn belief in the possibilities of painting, however damaged or scorned its status. It is a refusal that, to me, seems absolutely essential." continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 8.75 x 10.25 in. / 72 pgs / 48 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $40.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $54 GBP £35.00 ISBN: 9780989890212 PUBLISHER: Garth Greenan Gallery AVAILABLE: 2/24/2015 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: FLAT40 PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: WORLD
Published by Garth Greenan Gallery. Text by John Yau.
For over 35 years, Ontario-based artist and former member of the Hairy Who Art Green (born 1941) has carefully honed his personal iconography—idealized, archetypal images of ice cream cones, wood grain patterns, burning candles, moonlit landscapes and perfectly polished fingernails. This publication traces the development of Green's work from 1975 to 2013.
