"RICHARD ESTES: THE URBAN LANDSCAPE". Collectif. Editions Museum of Fine Arts & New York Graphic Society, Boston. 1979. Grand in-8, dos droit, format oblong, couverture souple cartonnée illustrée en couleurs. 70 pages. Texte en anglais de John Canaday, transcription d'une interview de l'artiste par John Arthur en Septembre 1977, illustré de 23 reproductions photographiques couleurs, pleine page, d'œuvres de Richard Estes.

 

"This is the first book of one of the leading figures in the triumphant revival of realism in American painting. The work of Richard Estes is appealing both for the dazzling technical process with which he renders the myriad details of the street and for the way these elements are composed into a distinctive aesthetic variant of the city view… The artist's own attitudes toward realism and abstraction are revealed in an interview with John Arthur, director of the Boston University Gallery. Their lengthy and fascinating conversation touches on Estes's evolution and focuses especially on the way in which he develops a painting. Studies and details of the work document this painstaking process. All of the paintings are reproduced in color in this large format, conveying a true sense of their subtleties and complexities."

 

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