Alfredo Arreguin - Patterns of Dreams and Nature / Disenos, Suenos y Naturaleza (Paperback, Revised Edition)

Ten new paintings by Alfredo Arreguin are included in this new edition of the highly regarded book first published in 2002. Arreguin's palpitations of color and light and arrested movement awaken our sublimated vision. His paintings seem to force our entire being to experience its livingness as an insatiable yearning and questing of the eyes. - from the Foreword by Tess Gallagher. decades, Alfredo Arreguin has long been recognized as a major force in pattern painting. His canvases are tapestries that mingle diverse and interpenetrating influences and images: the traditional crafts of his native Michoacan; the lush rainforests of his homeland and of the Pacific Northwest; Japanese ukiyo-e prints; sacred and endangered animals; gods and totemic figures; icons like Frida Kahlo and Cesar Chavez; and motifs including masks, eyes, and abstractly patterned tiles. But Arreguin's paintings, for all the apparent flatness of their surfaces, conceal an astonishing depth of perspective. superimposed planes, and below the surface of each completed painting are many others, transformed by the artist's strategic occlusions and erasures. The result is an exuberant, phosphorescent visual interplay in which images combine to form other images, yielding a potent narrative power and pointing up the profound, ambiguous symbiosis between human beings and nature, fiction and reality, and the natural and supernatural worlds. Lauro Flores reveals Alfredo Arreguin as a genuinely American painter, in the real, hemispheric sense of this term - an artist of magic, mystery, and revelation whose place in the history of North American art has already been secured.

General

Imprint:	University of Washington Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2007
First published:	September 2007
Authors:	Lauro Flores
Dimensions:	305 x 229 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages:	208
Edition:	Revised Edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-295-98734-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Painting & paintings > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Individual artists > General
LSN:	0-295-98734-0
Barcode:	9780295987347

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