Fairfield Porter - An American Classic (Hardcover)


Providing both authorized biography and artistic analysis, this book draws on previously unpublished correspondence to describe the emergence of the American artist Fairfield Porter as a figurative painter in the post-war decades of Abstract Expressionism who struggled to achieve recognition.;Porter's work is significant for its quintessentially American subject matter, and the book presents 280 paintings, prints and drawings as a kind of autobiography, for the artist's subjects were always himself, his family and friends, and the places where he lived.

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Providing both authorized biography and artistic analysis, this book draws on previously unpublished correspondence to describe the emergence of the American artist Fairfield Porter as a figurative painter in the post-war decades of Abstract Expressionism who struggled to achieve recognition.;Porter's work is significant for its quintessentially American subject matter, and the book presents 280 paintings, prints and drawings as a kind of autobiography, for the artist's subjects were always himself, his family and friends, and the places where he lived.

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Imprint

Harry N. Abrams, Inc.

Country of origin

United States

Release date

December 1992

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Dimensions

267 x 254mm (L x W)

Format

Hardcover

Pages

320

ISBN-13

978-0-8109-3719-2

Barcode

9780810937192

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LSN

0-8109-3719-0



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