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Catherine Murphy
Johny Contributions
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Description for Catherine Murphy
Hardcover. Catherine Murphy has been celebrated as a representational painter of exceptional precision, and this book surveys her complete work, which unites American Minimalism and American naturalist painting. Num Pages: 176 pages, 125 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 278 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1278.
Extolled as a contemporary heir of Edward Hopper, Catherine Murphy has evolved a style acutely American that combines obsessive authenticity with Minimalist rigor. From the shaded lawns of the New Jersey suburbs to the Massachusetts woods, from childhood interiors to self-portraits and detailed images of buttons and dust, carpeted stairs, or a stuccoed ceiling, Murphy always paints and draws from life, often the domestic and quotidian. However, Murphy has distinguished her art from that of other realists, particularly in her later work, which often presents her subjects in extreme proximity to the viewer, literally in your face. Murphy uses painting ... Read more
Extolled as a contemporary heir of Edward Hopper, Catherine Murphy has evolved a style acutely American that combines obsessive authenticity with Minimalist rigor. From the shaded lawns of the New Jersey suburbs to the Massachusetts woods, from childhood interiors to self-portraits and detailed images of buttons and dust, carpeted stairs, or a stuccoed ceiling, Murphy always paints and draws from life, often the domestic and quotidian. However, Murphy has distinguished her art from that of other realists, particularly in her later work, which often presents her subjects in extreme proximity to the viewer, literally in your face. Murphy uses painting ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Skira Rizzoli
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
1277g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780847848386
SKU
V9780847848386
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99-15
About Johny Contributions
Poet, art critic, and curator John Yau has published more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, and art criticism. He teaches at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Svetlana Alpers is professor emerita of art history, University of California, Berkeley.
Reviews for Catherine Murphy
Enjoy Catherine Murphy's style of representational painting and her well-known precision in her first monograph including more than 100 paintings and drawings. -THE SOCIETY DIARIES The work of Catherine Murphy perfectly describes its time. Her paintings, which date back to the late 1960s, travel a scenic route across the planes of contemporary art. In Catherine Murphy by ... Read more