Description
The first comprehensive monograph on painter and poet Robert De Niro, Sr. (1922-1993), a major contributor to postwar American art, known for his unique, bold style of painterly representation. De Niro was a visionary artist in the early days of Abstract Expressionism and a celebrated member of the New York School of painters, along with Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock. Over the course of his fifty-year career, he painted portraits, still lifes, the female nude, and interiors with a signature gestural painting style and brilliant color, which bear the influence of Henri Matisse as well as his teacher, Hans Hofmann. During the height of Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art in the 1960s, De Niro remained faithful to his own vision in his paintings and poetry; today his powerful figural works are ripe for rediscovery. This lavishly illustrated book brings together De Niro s paintings, prints, and drawings as well as a never-before-published selection of his writings and poetry. Featuring essays by noted scholars and an illustrated biography including many unpublished photographs and ephemera, this seminal volume explores the depth and breadth of De Niro s oeuvre.
About the Author
Robert Storr is a painter and the Former Dean of the School of Art at Yale University. He was Curator, Department of Paintings and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York (1990-2002). He is the author of numerous artists' monographs and exhibition catalogues and monographs including those on Gerhard Richter, Louise Bourgeois, Philip Guston, and Chuck Close. He is a Contributing Editor to Art in America magazine. He lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut, and Brooklyn, New York. Charles Stuckey is a New York-based independent scholar in charge of research for the forthcoming revised catalogue raisonne for paintings and gouaches by Yves Tanguy. A widely published specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American and European art, he led a distinguished career as a curator at the National Gallery of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the Kimbell Art Museum. He helped organize major retrospective exhibitions on Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Eduoard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Paul Gauguin and Claude Monet; and he has published major articles and catalogue essays on Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, and Marcel Duchamp.
Book Information
ISBN 9780847862887
Author Robert Storr
Format Hardback
Page Count 256
Imprint Mondadori Electa
Publisher Mondadori Electa
About the Author
Robert Storr is a painter and the Former Dean of the School of Art at Yale University. He was Curator, Department of Paintings and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York (1990-2002). He is the author of numerous artists' monographs and exhibition catalogues and monographs including those on Gerhard Richter, Louise Bourgeois, Philip Guston, and Chuck Close. He is a Contributing Editor to Art in America magazine. He lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut, and Brooklyn, New York. Charles Stuckey is a New York-based independent scholar in charge of research for the forthcoming revised catalogue raisonne for paintings and gouaches by Yves Tanguy. A widely published specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American and European art, he led a distinguished career as a curator at the National Gallery of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the Kimbell Art Museum. He helped organize major retrospective exhibitions on Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Eduoard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Paul Gauguin and Claude Monet; and he has published major articles and catalogue essays on Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, and Marcel Duchamp.
Book Information
ISBN 9780847862887
Author Robert Storr
Format Hardback
Page Count 256
Imprint Mondadori Electa
Publisher Mondadori Electa
