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Charles Munch, Dreaming in Color: Paintings 1971-2006
Clowes, Jody, Ely, Richard
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Description for Charles Munch, Dreaming in Color: Paintings 1971-2006
Paperback. Charles Munch is well known in the American Midwest for his bold, luminously colored paintings of people and animals in expansive landscapes. This book reveals Munch's transition from the poetic realism of his early work to the semi-abstraction, as well as the personal and artistic crisis at the heart of that transformation. Num Pages: 72 pages, 60 colour paintings. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC; AGB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 216 x 7. Weight in Grams: 236.
Charles Munch is well known in the American Midwest for his bold, luminously colored paintings of people and animals in expansive landscapes. For twenty-five years, his richly imagined images have explored the tangled relationship between tame and wild, between humans and the rest of the natural world. The elegant simplicity of his pictures has caused them to be described as 'nature icons'. ""Charles Munch, Dreaming in Color"" reveals Munch's transition from the poetic realism of his early work to the brilliant semi-abstraction of today, as well as the personal and artistic crisis at the heart of that dramatic transformation. Jody ... Read more
Charles Munch is well known in the American Midwest for his bold, luminously colored paintings of people and animals in expansive landscapes. For twenty-five years, his richly imagined images have explored the tangled relationship between tame and wild, between humans and the rest of the natural world. The elegant simplicity of his pictures has caused them to be described as 'nature icons'. ""Charles Munch, Dreaming in Color"" reveals Munch's transition from the poetic realism of his early work to the brilliant semi-abstraction of today, as well as the personal and artistic crisis at the heart of that dramatic transformation. Jody ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
72
Place of Publication
Madison, United States
ISBN
9781879483965
SKU
V9781879483965
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About Clowes, Jody, Ely, Richard
Jody Clowes is director of the University of Wisconsin - Madison's Design Gallery and a freelance curator. Richard Ely is a writer and editor working in Madison, Wisconsin.
Reviews for Charles Munch, Dreaming in Color: Paintings 1971-2006
The strength of Munch's work... is in the intellectual force of the images. Each painting offers much more than could be imagined on first viewing. - Steven Kapelke, New Art Examiner ""He offers simply outlined figures, with no modeling of form; almost childlike patches of pure color, and small swatches of descriptive line. Curiously what happens is an almost magical ... Read more