A fascinating and comprehensive monograph highlighting the career of the provocative American painter Peter Saul

Peter Saul is known for his vivid, cartoon-like paintings that satirize American culture. Influenced by the Chilean surrealist painter Roberto Matta and by MAD magazine, Saul developed his unique neo-surrealist style in contrast to the abstract expressionist aesthetic that prevailed at the time. Through wide-ranging imagery, Saul's darkly humorous works trenchantly comment on contemporary politics and culture.

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A fascinating and comprehensive monograph highlighting the career of the provocative American painter Peter Saul

Product details

ISBN
9781838660796
Published
2020
Publisher
Phaidon Press Ltd; Phaidon Press Ltd
Weight
2028 gr
Height
318 mm
Width
292 mm
Thickness
25 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
192

Biographical note

Gary Carrion-Murayari is Kraus Family Curator at the New Museum, New York.

Robert Cozzolino is Patrick and Aimee Butler Curator of Paintings at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Thomas Crow is Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

Massimiliano Gioni is Edlis Neeson Artistic Director at the New Museum, New York.

Matthew Israel is an independent curator, writer, and art historian based in New York.

Dan Nadel is a New York-based writer and curator.

Nicole Rudick is a writer and editor based in New Jersey.

John Welchman is a professor of modern and Contemporary art history at the University of California, San Diego.