An edition of Of dogs and other people (2017)

Of dogs and other people

the art of Roy De Forest

Of dogs and other people
Susan Landauer, Susan Landauer
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An edition of Of dogs and other people (2017)

Of dogs and other people

the art of Roy De Forest

"Roy De Forest's brightly colored, crazy-quilted jungles dotted with nipples of paint and inhabited by a cast of characters uniquely his own (a perennial favorite being his wild-eyed, pointy-eared dogs) appeal to a broad spectrum of viewers from young to old, from the casual visitor to the most sophisticated art aficionado. OMCA's project aims to reassess De Forest's art-historical position, placing him in a national rather than solely regional/West Coast context. Landauer positions De Forest as part of a bicoastal alternative current of American art that has been poorly documented and deliberately ran counter to better publicized tendencies of the 1960s and 1970s, notably Pop, Minimalism, and post-painterly abstraction. Despite the playfulness of his work, close study of De Forest's art reveals deep layers of meaning. He was a fan of popular science fiction and adventure stories, but he was also well versed in Australian aboriginal art, ukiyo-e prints, poetry, literature, and the history of philosophy. He enjoyed secreting obscure art-historical references into his work: animals might assume postures found in Medieval or Renaissance art, or a drawing that appears to depict a comic-book character may in fact refer to Titian's triple-headed allegory of Prudence. This engaging publication presents gorgeous color reproductions of 150 of De Forest's finest artworks, plus a variety of figure illustrations that illuminate the artist's diverse sources and freewheeling social and creative milieu in Northern California"--

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Language
English
Pages
199

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Table of Contents

Origins
Postwar San Francisco
In pursuit of the marvelous
Valley of the dots : the early years at UC Davis
The phantasmagoric artist
Framing the journey : sculpture and late work.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-192) and index.

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Of Dogs and Other People: The Art of Roy De Forest, organized and presented by the Oakland Museum of California, April 29-August 20, 2017"--Title page verso.

Other Titles
Art of Roy De Forest

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
700.92, B
Library of Congress
N6537.D37 L36 2016, N6537.D37L36 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
199 pages
Number of pages
199

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27240068M
ISBN 10
0520292200
ISBN 13
9780520292208
LCCN
2016044197
OCLC/WorldCat
960043527

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