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A Small Radius of Light - G. Daniel Massad, A Retrospective (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,440
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A Small Radius of Light - G. Daniel Massad, A Retrospective (Paperback): Joyce Henri Robinson, G. Daniel Massad

A Small Radius of Light - G. Daniel Massad, A Retrospective (Paperback)

Joyce Henri Robinson, G. Daniel Massad

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A Small Radius of Light maps the territory artist G. Daniel Massad has explored for almost four decades. After earning degrees in English at Princeton and the University of Chicago and working for a time as a psychotherapist, Massad made the decision to pursue graduate work in painting in 1979. Two years later, while working on his MFA at the University of Kansas, Massad made an unexpected shift from abstraction to still life, and from oil to pastel as a painting medium. His abandonment of painterly gesture for knife-edge precisionism led him in the late 1980s to the painstaking reenactment of minute detail in order to express, as he puts it, “the way I encounter the world.” Since 1990, still life’s traditional tabletop and its implied interior space have given way in his work to less easily definable architectural fragments of brick or stone; the darkness surrounding these broken walls and cairns is deep, immeasurable, and richly potent. Over the last two decades, Massad has moved past description and metaphor, layering into his images other kinds of data—maps, words, numbers, constellations, personal symbols—all of which suggest readings of his remarkable still lifes as aniconic portraiture, implied narrative, and visual autobiography. This book accompanies an exhibition of the same name organized by the Palmer Museum of Art and features a comprehensive essay by curator Joyce Henri Robinson and forty-three “backstories” by the artist. These memoir-like reflections invite us to peer into Massad’s artistic, emotional, and mental process as he moves from making the intangible tangible, revealing along the way sources and associations that precede the final reenactment of the world around him—a world brought into focus by a small radius of light.

General

Imprint: Palmer Museum of Art
Country of origin: United States
Release date: December 2018
First published: 2019
Authors: Joyce Henri Robinson • G. Daniel Massad
Dimensions: 292 x 222 x 292mm (L x W x H)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 978-0-911209-72-3
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Drawing & drawings > General
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LSN: 0-911209-72-7
Barcode: 9780911209723

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