Contributions

  • Takenaga, Barbara, artist - Contributor
  • Shepard, Jim, writer of added commentary - Contributor
  • Young, Geoffrey, 1944- writer of added commentary - Contributor
  • Williams College. Museum of Art - Contributor
  • Prestel Verlag - Contributor

Publication

2017 - Prestel, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

35,750 words, Guess

Page Count

143 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-10379135700X
  • ISBN-139783791357003
  • Library of Congress Control Number2017941023
  • OCLC Control Number982089506
  • Better World Books9783791357003
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC700.411
  • LCCND237.T35 A4 2017
  • LCCND237

Description

At once conceptual and decorative, Barbara Takenaga's swirling, patterned paintings have been called "psychedelic" and "cosmic." Takenaga's approach to painting is both highly structured and disciplined. In this collection of seventy paintings, the evolution of Takenaga's celestial bodies and ecstatic compositions is traced over a 20-year period. The luminous reproductions allow readers to study her intricacies of form and color. The book includes an essay that examines Takenaga's work in relation to historic precedents and current aesthetic developments; a brief consideration of Takenaga's career by novelist Jim Shepard; and a poem by Geoffrey Young.

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