"A gorgeous and moving book about a grand American
masterpiece."--Thomas Hoving
"Is The Rose erupting or imploding, or is it doing both
simultaneously--swallowing up and disgorging a life, an era, an
entire mythos? The current volume, at last grappling with the whole
of Jay DeFeo's great billowing fever dream of a masterpiece, plugs
a gaping hole in the history of contemporary American art, and does
so with a sense of moment and scale and flair worthy of its
mind-blowing subject."--Lawrence Weschler
"An original and highly effective combining of 'readings' of the
work of Jay DeFeo, a leading figure of the Beat generation. The
various perspectives of the authors come smoothly together in their
recognition of her supreme artistic ambition and desire to approach
transcendence through art. New images and insights demythologize
"The Rose, now a genuine icon of the heroic abstract expressionist
ethos identified with the era, enabling its creator to emerge as an
individual and thereby richly enhancing our understanding of both
the art and the artist."--Paul J. Karlstrom, editor of "On the Edge
of America: California Modernist Art, 1900-1950
"Eight years in the making, Jay DeFeo's The Rose was hidden
behind a wall for over two decades and uncovered only after the
artist's death. This book presents an account of its remarkable
birth, burial, rescue, and resurrection through the words of
conservators, curators, art historians, friends of the artist, and
critics. The volume's sensitively written essays bring "The Rose
back to life in all its enigmatic complexity. It is a story
unparalleled in contemporary art history, by turns riveting,
heartbreaking, and exhilarating."--Eleanor Heartney,author of
"Critical Condition: American Culture at theCrossroads
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