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[Helen Park Bigelow] ↠ David Park, Painter: Nothing Held Back ☆ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. David Park, Painter: Nothing Held Back Park's original cohorts of Bay Area Figurative painters were his close friends Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, and Hassel Smith. David Park, Painter is a skillful blend of memoir and observations about life in the Bay Area just before and just after World War II, when some of America's most original, even radical, artists and writers gathered there. Park left high school in New England without graduating and came west in order to paint. He was the first of the brilliant post-World War
| Title | : | David Park, Painter: Nothing Held Back |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.35 (606 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1619025957 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-13 |
| Language | : | English |
I assign this book to my students. I want to assign it to the whole country."Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down the Bones and The Great Spring"'As if the colors took my gaze for a ride' is how Helen Park Bigelow recalls her instinctive response to the paintings of her father David Park's brief abstract phase, while seeing, in likewise perfect accuracy, his better-known figurative works as "heavy with being." The "ride" taken in Ms. Praise for David Park, Painter
Park's original cohorts of Bay Area Figurative painters were his close friends Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, and Hassel Smith. David Park, Painter is a skillful blend of memoir and observations about life in the Bay Area just before and just after World War II, when some of America's most original, even radical, artists and writers gathered there. Park left high school in New England without graduating and came west in order to paint. He was the first of the brilliant post-World War II generation of artists to break with Abstract Expressionism's hegemony and return to painting recognizable subjects, most powerfully the human figure. He married Lydia (Deedie) Newell when he was nineteen and was the father of two by the time he was twenty-two. This close-up portrayal is unlike other accounts of artists. All outlived him—Smith by nearly fifty years—and enjoyed recognition and fame during their lifetimes. A half century after his death, David Park (1911-1960) is recognized as one of America's most important twentieth-century painters. Those same values guided and inspired David Park's painting.Yet this is much more than an artist biography. Park's reputation is just now fully coming into its own.
"First and last, a painter" according to Stephen O. Murray. I’ve often found David Park’s (1911-60) paintings arresting, and decided to read about him, choosing the memoir/biography of his daughter (born in 19First and last, a painter I’ve often found David Park’s (1911-60) paintings arresting, and decided to read about him, choosing the memoir/biography of his daughter (born in 1933) Helen Park Bigelow, which is subtitled “Nothing Held Back.” In that she acknowledges the possibilities that both her parents had affairs, and that except while David Park was dying, her mother was an alcoholic prone to depression, the subtitle seems apt enough, though I think she meant it to refer to her father’s work rather than to her own.The book makes clear that both her parents subordinated everything else, not least parenti. First and last, a painter I’ve often found David Park’s (1911-60) paintings arresting, and decided to read about him, choosing the memoir/biography of his daughter (born in 1933) Helen Park Bigelow, which is subtitled “Nothing Held Back.” In that she acknowledges the possibilities that both her parents had affairs, and that except while David Park was dying, her mother was an alcoholic prone to depression, the subtitle seems apt enough, though I think she meant it to refer to her father’s work rather than to her own.The book makes clear that both her parents subordinated everything else, not least parenti. ) Helen Park Bigelow, which is subtitled “Nothing Held Back.” In that she acknowledges the possibilities that both her parents had affairs, and that except while David Park was dying, her mother was an alcoholic prone to depression, the subtitle seems apt enough, though I think she meant it to refer to her father’s work rather than to her own.The book makes clear that both her parents subordinated everything else, not least parenti. "Five Stars" according to Katie H.. Beautiful book, large plates. Quality printing.. David Park Comes Alive David Park the man, and David Park the painter both come alive in his daughter's intimate memoir. For those who admire Park's paintings, reading this book will answer many questions about his background and his character. As author Helen Park Bigelow candidly points out, there are some mysteries that remain, but the book is the most complete portrait of Park that will ever be published. It is also the story of a marriage and of the family life of a man just selfish enough to be a painter, and of his devoted wife who overcame her own problems to care for him at the end of his life. Keep in mind, this isn't a b
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