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Peter McDonald

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Peter McDonald: Teaching, Airport, Hair Salon, Bakery, Snooker
VEENMAN PUBLISHERS

Hardback, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 92 pgs / 110 color. | 8/1/2008 | Not available
$53.00



Peter McDonald: Teaching, Airport, Hair Salon, Bakery, SnookerPeter McDonald: Teaching, Airport, Hair Salon, Bakery, Snooker

Published by Veenman Publishers.

This first monograph introduces the bright, cartoony figurative painting of the Tokyo-born, London-based artist Peter McDonald. Designed to resemble a children's picture book, this text-free volume delivers a colorful world inhabited by people engaged in everyday activities--teaching, relaxing, making bread, holding hands, buying wool, dressing hair. McDonald's figures are constructed with an elementary graphic language. They have a cartoon-like simplicity and waver at the point where figuration might tip at any moment into abstraction. Human forms veer towards the geometric: circles stand in for heads, flat planes describe rooms and crude poses denote narrative. Yet these simplifications appear to create a community of super-humans living in a world that has a harmonious transparency. McDonald is represented in London by Kate MacGarry gallery.

PUBLISHER
Veenman Publishers

BOOK FORMAT
Hardback, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 92 pgs / 110 color.

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D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2008 p. 126   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9789086901081 TRADE
List Price: $53.00 CAD $65.00

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