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DECORATIVE ARTS, JEWELRY, CERAMICS, GLASS, TEXTILES

PUBLISHER
Museum of Arts and Design

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 13.5 x 13 in. / 276 pgs / 486 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 11/30/2012
Out of print

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2012 p. 140

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9781890385248 TRADE
List Price: $85.00 CAD $100.00

AVAILABILITY
Not available

TERRITORY
WORLD

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

New York
Museum of Arts and Design, 10/16/12-02/17/13

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Daniel Brush

Edited by Amy Wilkins. Introduction by Dr. Oliver Sacks. Text by David Revere McFadden, Brett Littman, Daniel Brush, Olivia Brush, Saskia Hamilton, Paul Keegan.

The work of Daniel Brush (born 1947) does not fit neatly into the categories commonly used to describe contemporary art or craft. While he uses traditional art media such as pen and ink and paper or canvas, he also uses materials such as blocks of billet steel, pure aluminum, pure gold and precious gems; he also makes exquisite jewelry. These mysterious artworks--drawings, paintings, small sculptures, jewelry and other objects hard to classify--reveal, upon close inspection, details that are astonishing in their precision and technical facility. Most of Brush's work is in private collections around the world, and it is rarely seen in public. Containing more than 450 photographs (all of which represent the artworks at their actual size), this book shows much of the artist's work of the last decade and affords a rare opportunity to contemplate these objects.

Featured image, "Locations" (2011), is reproduced from Daniel Brush.

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FROM THE BOOK

The enigmatic work of the artist Daniel Brush may be best described in his own words as "the clarity of confusion." Brush, who has been steadily working for almost 40 years, has produced paintings, drawings and sculptures that are at once profoundly spare and at the same time are some of the most exquisitely crafted, information dense and emotionally complex works that you will ever experience. Irreconcilable ideas in general feed his aesthetics making his art open ended and probing. These are works that engender more questions than answers.
So where does "clarity" come into play in Brush's work? I would argue that the drawn, engraved and fabricated line is the formal component that gives clarity to his diverse oeuvre. The compositional element of the line links the paintings, drawings, sculptures, Loose Threads and his latest geometric "light" sculptures made with steel and diamonds.
- Brett Littman, excerpted from the essay Daniel Brush: Drawing a Line, reproduced from Daniel Brush.

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