Author: Brooks, JamesBoasting an eight-page gatefold and a detailed chronology and bibliography, this fully illustrated catalogue features a generous sampling of Abstract Expressionist James Brooks' ever-evolving oeuvre, providing an overdue reappraisal of this artist who boldly disrupted any tendency toward repeated formulas. After discarding the Social Realist style of his early career, Brooks worked across multiple mediums, and pioneered the use of staining, dilution and accidental deterioration of canvases.This fully illustrated catalogue features a generous sampling of Brooks' ever-evolving oeuvre: murals for the procurement division of the Treasury Department in the 1930s; paintings created in the Middle East during his military service as a combat artist for the War Department’s Art Advisory Committee in the 1940s; early lithographs and paintings influenced by the South-western regionalism of his formative Dallas years; abstract expressionist works of the 1950s; and his later colourful abstractions that presaged some of the art of today.ISBN 9781938922053. DelMonico Books/Parrish Art Museum. hb. 176 pages. 140 colour, 17 b/w ills. 29.2 x 24.1 cm.available
