Hardcover
1975 · New York City
by Chernow, Burt and Harold Rosenberg
New York City: David Anderson, 1975. Hardcover. G- (Moderately aged overall, with tanning DJ with wear to edges; pages are aging slightly in gutters; this copy is WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to American artist Will Barnet on the opening page.). Siena cloth, cream & color illus. dust jacket, 72 pp., BW illus., tipped-in color plates. Considers the people-oriented paintings from the early 1970s rendered by American modernist Lester Johnson (1919-2010). "Johnson's work has always had an explosive vitality, however, the recent works signal a new direction in color and pattern. The kaleidoscopic and everchanging crowd appears and reappears in constantly changing guises. Alive with energy and movement these street scenes represent one of the most personal statements on the human condition in our times. John's men are joined by powerful and voluptuous women to create a view of today's world, a view as dynamic and exciting as any in the post World War II period." (dj) Includes 50 examples of the paintings, as well as a select bibliography. This copy is WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to American artist Will Barnet on the first page.
(Inventory #: 153557)