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Overview
This lavishly illustrated monograph accompanied a retrospective exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Phillips Collection, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. An intimate account of Rothschild's life, based on her journals, with a critical survey of her abstract paintings.
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Published to coincide with a retrospective exhibition on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York during 1998. Rothschild's (1921-1993) five-decade career and personal and artistic development are thoroughly explored in art historian Flam's text, which draws extensively on her personal notebooks and journals. Her engagement with a time of radical change in American painting<-->with the opposing claims of pure abstraction and of metaphorical figuration<-- >is represented by 48 dynamic paintings. A chronology with selected exhibitions summarizes her activities. 9.5x12.25<"> Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
September 1, 1998
Publisher
Hudson Hills Press Inc.,U.S.
Pages
180
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781555951504