Cecily Brown : themes and variations / edited by Anna Katherine Brodbeck, Simonetta Fraquelli ; with essays by Anna Katherine Brodbeck, Aruna D'Souza, Simonetta Fraquelli

Author: Brown, Cecily, 1969-
Published: New Haven ; London : Distributed by Yale University Press
[Dallas, Tex.] : Dallas Museum of Art ; Philadelphia : The Barnes Foundation, [2024]
Copyright Date: ©2024
Physical Description: 159 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 x 30 cm
Additional Creators: Brodbeck, Anna Katherine, Fraquelli, Simonetta, D'Souza, Aruna, Dallas Museum of Art, and Barnes Foundation

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Contents

Cecily Brown: From the intimate to the political / Anna Katherine Brodbeck -- For the love of paint: Cecily Brown's creative process / Simonetta Fraquelli -- Cecily Brown's dead uncles / Aruna D'Souza -- Plates.

Summary

"Surveying three decades of the British painter Cecily Brown's career, with its vibrant mixture of gestural expression, canonical and pop references, and subversive themes. This stunning volume surveys the pioneering career of Cecily Brown (b. 1969), one of the most celebrated artists working in painting today. In particular, it explores her process through paintings and drawings that demonstrate both her radical contemporaneity and her keen reassessment of historical precedents such as old master paintings and abstract expressionism, which have been consistent hallmarks of her art. The book's probing essays look at her practice, investigate the main themes that recur in Brown's work, and consider her art from a feminist perspective. Brown reclaimed the heroic gestural expression often affiliated with the male artists of the abstract expressionist generation--largely out of favor with her peers--and in this mode she creates lush, dynamic paintings that often contain erotic content appropriated from art historical or pop culture sources. Moving between figuration and abstraction, Brown subverts gendered tropes in work that often deals with the power imbalances inherent in voyeurism and sexual violence."--

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ISBN

9780300278866
0300278861

Note

Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same title, held at Dallas Museum of Art, September 29, 2024-February 9, 2025, and The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, March 9-May 25, 2025.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-155) and index.

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