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Rackstraw Downes
By Schwartz, Sanford & Storr, Robert & Downes, Rackstraw
- ISBN
- 978-0-69112-047-8
- Publisher
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on July 25, 2005
"Just the facts," a phrase much invoked in discussions of Downes' work, is elevated to an aesthetic practice by these three essays and more than 100 plates. Typically producing realistic landscapes painted on decidedly horizontal canvases (some, only as tall as a standard sheet of paper, stretch several feet wide), Downes focuses on freeway overpasses, cement factories, ventilation towers and traffic intersections, but neither...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
