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Robert Longo: Charcoal
Hal Foster Kate Fow
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Description for Robert Longo: Charcoal
Hardcover. Retrospective. 256 pages, 140 illutrations in triplex. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AGB. Dimension: 301 x 260 x 35. Weight: 2118.
The enormous, photorealistic charcoal drawings by American artist Robert Longo (*1953 in Brooklyn, New York) show the beauty and horror of the present day and age. His large-format works contrast the innocence of sleeping toddlers, the tranquil grandiosity of Earth and the planets, roses in bloom, and Gothic cathedrals with threatening images of atom bomb explosions, fighter pilots, monster waves, sharks, and the muzzles of revolvers. Inexorably and seismographically precise, the winner of the 2005 Goslar Kaiserring and 2010 inductee into the French Order of Arts and Letters records the state of our world. Longo’s powerful motifs give form and ... Read more
The enormous, photorealistic charcoal drawings by American artist Robert Longo (*1953 in Brooklyn, New York) show the beauty and horror of the present day and age. His large-format works contrast the innocence of sleeping toddlers, the tranquil grandiosity of Earth and the planets, roses in bloom, and Gothic cathedrals with threatening images of atom bomb explosions, fighter pilots, monster waves, sharks, and the muzzles of revolvers. Inexorably and seismographically precise, the winner of the 2005 Goslar Kaiserring and 2010 inductee into the French Order of Arts and Letters records the state of our world. Longo’s powerful motifs give form and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Hatje Cantz
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Ostfildern, Germany
ISBN
9783775731966
SKU
V9783775731966
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Hal Foster Kate Fow
Thomas Kellein has been Director of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld since 1996. He was formerly curator of the extensive Hanns Sohm Intermedia Archive in the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart.
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