Год выпуска: 2013 Автор: Gary Baseman, Denise A. Gray Издательство: Skira Rizzoli Publications Страниц: 208 ISBN: 978-0-8478-4047-2
Описание
This catalogue to the first museum retrospective of Gary Baseman's extraordinary work explores the very personal world of a unique American artist. Gary Baseman has been an avid artist since childhood, his visual vernacular defined by his Jewish upbringing in the multicultural landscape of Los Angeles and by the popular forms of television, films, games, toys, and cartoons from the 1930s to the present day. With The Door Is Always Open, the Skirball Cultural Center presents the first major retrospective of Baseman's career to date, exhibiting the artist's work and personal artifacts within the compelling and novel conceit of a home within a gallery. The show is designed to resemble a tour of a house, at once highlighting the intensely personal nature of Baseman's work (and reflecting the locality of his influences) and drawing attention to the effortless but deliberate movement between disciplines and boundaries inherent in his art. This beautifully illustrated catalogue follows the...
