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Bob Thompson: So Let Us All Be Citizens

Bob Thompson: So Let Us All Be Citizens

Thompson, Bob

Hardcover

Series: Clarion, Book 7

American Art - African American & BlackGeneral ArtIndividual Artists

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ISBN10: 1644231263
ISBN13: 9781644231265
Publisher: David Zwirner Books/52 Walker
Published: Oct 29 2024
Pages: 128
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.80 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
A colorful, fantastical, and musical body of work by the painter Bob Thompson

Thompson, who finally seems to be on fame's doorstep, invents in much the same way: he makes you feel how it might have felt to see a picture of an angel for the first time. --The New Yorker

Influenced by jazz, Bob Thompson painted spirited, colorful compositions that feature an interplay of bodies, allegories, and natural landscapes while reconfiguring European masterworks. Though his career as a painter spanned only a brief period, from 1958 to his untimely death in 1966, at age twenty-eight, Thompson left behind a singular and influential body of figurative work that remains vitally resonant. Looking at his particular consideration of color, line, and figuration--developed during a period when abstraction was the dominant trend in American art--this intimate exhibition catalogue, the seventh volume in the Clarion series, pays homage to the friction Thompson generated between his proximity to and deviation from canonical sources.

With an introduction by Ebony L. Haynes and a text by the renowned artist Rashid Johnson, along with a seminal 1978 essay on Thompson by Gylbert Garvin Coker and reflections by Emilio Cruz and A. B. Spellman, this publication expands on Thompson's dynamic practice and features works that spotlight his signature high-contrast palette.

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