ABCDuane: A Duane Michals Primer

ABCDuane: A Duane Michals Primer

The legendary photographer relates intimate themes of his life and art in a scrapbook memoir illustrated by his worksâ€”from portraits of Magritte to Warhol, to painted tintypes, and the revolutionary multiple-image sequences and handwritten texts for which he is best knownâ€”and by pieces from his personal art collection, now donated to Pittsburghâ€™s Carnegie Museum of Art.
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Whether a portrait of EugÃ¨ne Atget by Berenice Abbott, collages by Joseph Cornell, or drawings by David Hockney, the works of Michalsâ€™s artistic lodestars sit alongside his own haunting imagesâ€”some never-before-publishedâ€”and his mordantly funny, playful, humble, and heartbreaking observations on art, photography, and lifeâ€”revealing the creative obsessions of a uniquely beloved artist.
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The images and texts by Duane Michals assembled here are, like the artist himselfâ€”impossible to categorize; perhaps there is no better way to organize them than alphabetically. Whether recalling encounters with many of the past centuryâ€™s most illustrious artists (Balthus, Duchamp), celebrating literary heroes (Whitman, Joyce), addressing essential human concerns (Grief, Childrenâ€™s Stories, Homosexuality, God), or revealing deeply personal snippets of life with a partner suffering from dementia (Fred Said)â€”ABCDuane is a creative autobiography and the perfect primer for Michalsâ€™s vastly influential body of workâ€”both for those who have loved it for the past half-century, and those being delighted by it for the first time.
Country USA
Brand The Monacelli Press
Manufacturer The Monacelli Press
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 150
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2014-11-04
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781580934053

Country	USA
Brand	The Monacelli Press
Manufacturer	The Monacelli Press
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	150
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2014-11-04
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781580934053

ABCDuane: A Duane Michals Primer

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