Jules de Balincourt |
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Contribution by:
| Nickas, Bob Scott, Andrea K. Troncy, Eric |
ISBN: | 978-0-8478-3975-9 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
Publisher: | Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
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Imprint: | Skira |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $65.00 |
Book Description:
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One of the most exciting and intuitive painters of his generation, channeling a uniquely American perspective on our current moment. Jules de Balincourt burst onto the art scene in the early 2000s and has been a critical and commercial success since then. What curators and critics saw in the work was a painterly language that was as singular as it was insightful--a faux-naif style to communicate highly developed and sophisticated ideas about the nature of government...
More DescriptionOne of the most exciting and intuitive painters of his generation, channeling a uniquely American perspective on our current moment.
Jules de Balincourt burst onto the art scene in the early 2000s and has been a critical and commercial success since then. What curators and critics saw in the work was a painterly language that was as singular as it was insightful--a faux-naif style to communicate highly developed and sophisticated ideas about the nature of government and communities, no doubt inspired by post 9/11 America as well as the artist's very unconventional upbringing in quasi-hippy communes of Southern California in the late 1970s.
In this most comprehensive book on the artist's work accompanying a major mid-career retrospective, the entirety of the artist's oeuvre is considered. Layered throughout the book are Balincourt's many reference materials, everything from newspaper clippings to textiles from South America. In a comprehensive essay, Richard Flood addresses the various aspects of the artist's work.