Author: Yektai, ManoucherWith decadent colours and loose brushstrokes, the paintings of the artist Manoucher Yektai fuse Eastern and Western traditions, synthesising a unique blend of abstraction that owes as much to Franz Kline as it does to Cézanne. This fully illustrated monograph, featuring essays by Robert Slifkin, Fereshteh Daftari, Media Farzin and Biddle Duke, charts the artist's output from the late 1950s to the early 2000s.Influenced by his early life in Iran and his visits to Paris, and by the New York School, Yektai is recognised as one of the few Abstract Expressionists who also continued working in the still-life genre. An accomplished poet, he approached the act of painting with the melodic sensibility of his own free-verse poems.This fully illustrated monograph, featuring essays by Robert Slifkin, Fereshteh Daftari, Media Farzin and Biddle Duke, as well as a conversation between Hadi Fallahpisheh and Tahereh Fallahzadeh, charts the artist's output over the course of the late 1950s to the early 2000s.ISBN 9781949172683. Karma Books, New York. hb. 592 pages. 500 colour ills. 23 x 18 cm.available
