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050 00 $aN6537.D37$bL36 2016
082 00 $a700.92$aB$223
100 1 $aLandauer, Susan,$eauthor.
245 10 $aOf dogs and other people :$bthe art of Roy De Forest /$cSusan Landauer ; with an introduction by Michael Duncan.
246 30 $aArt of Roy De Forest
264 1 $aOakland, California :$bOakland Museum of California in association with University of California Press,$c[2017]
264 4 $c©2017
300 $a199 pages :$billustrations (chiefly color) ;$c28 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
505 0 $aBeginnings -- Post-war 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.
520 $a"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 He enjoyed secreting obscure art-historical references into his work: animals might assume postures found in Medieval or Renaissance art, or a drawing that appears to depict a comic-book character may in fact refer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."--Provided by publisher.
585 $a"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.
600 10 $aDe Forest, Roy,$d1930-2007.
600 17 $aDe Forest, Roy,$d1930-2007.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01456935
650 0 $aArtists$zCalifornia$vBiography.
650 0 $aAnimals in art.
650 7 $aAnimals in art.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00809573
650 7 $aArtists.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00817559
651 7 $aCalifornia.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204928
655 7 $aBiography.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423686
710 2 $aOakland Museum of California,$ehost institution.
852 00 $boff,fax$hN6537.D37$iL36 2016