Julian Schnabel

Malerei / Paintings 1978-2003

By Schnabel, Julian

Publishers Summary:
People have asked me, as a painter, how do I do it? There's no separation really, between life and art for me. That can sound like a pretentious thing, but what's the fucking difference? Art, that's what I do, and I use everything, consciously or unconsciously. --Julian Schnabel Observers of contemporary art associate the name Julian Schnabel with highly evocative, large-scale paintings. At the time of his early exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe in the 80s, the larger-than-life Schnabel was loudly hailed as a new milestone in the development of painting, the savior of an art form declared dead years before. Still painting some of the most massive canvases around, Schnabel is a virtually unrivalled master in the use of "bigness" and a broad range of materials. Fragmentation and overlapping play an important role in his art, in terms of both material and content. If his paintings don't exhibit a consistent style, why should they? Instead, they combine oil painting and collage techniques, classical pictorial elements inspired by historical art, Neo-Expressionist features, as well as figuration and abstraction, gesture and structure. This volume presents a broad selection of Schnabel's paintings in a survey of his diverse oeuvre, with emphasis placed on works from 1990 to the present. Essays by Robert Fleck, Max Hollein, Alison Gingeras and Ingrid Pfeiffer. Hardcover, 10.25 x 11.5 in./176 pgs / 70 color and 30 b & w.

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ISBN
978-3-77571-386-3
Publisher
Hatje Cantz Publishers


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Reviewed on October 15, 2004

After last year's spectacular Julian Schnabel (Abrams), an oversized monograph assembled by the artist himself, this bilingual exhibition catalog may seem anticlimactic and even superfluous. However, its way of handling the subject is significantly different, taking a more traditional art book's approach to this contemporary painter's work by providing interpretive,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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