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Title: Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art by Justin Spring ISBN: 0-300-07637-1 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: January, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fairfield Porter, an interesting story
Comment: Fairfield Porter's paintings have a strange pale quality, and they are flooded with light.His subjects are upper class domestic,and many of them are pale and etherial. He painted his family friends,and their pvt haunts beautifully. Little did most people realize he was a torn person,and probably can be better understood by this reading.I think what amazed me the most about this book was the incredible latent homosexual exsistence that paralled and co-existed within Porter's very homey and simmering homogenous realism.The bio details his social, artistic and private relationships with a younger generation of artists. This book is a portrait of a man at war with his sexuality. His ptngs are beautifully orchestrated, sensual, understated. A must for those that want to know more about Porter's life, and the different sides that lived inside him. A good read!I love artist bios.This is a worthy effort.
Rating: 5
Summary: Thorough, but difficult biography on Fairfield Porter
Comment: Justin Spring's biography on Fairfield Porter, A Life In Art, is one of the most difficult and disturbing biographies I've read in some time. It's incredibly thorough, as if no piece of information was left out.
Most biographies are bound to reveal new information, but the amount here is overwhelming. Other reviews here on Amazon bring out the detail, so there's no point repeating it. If you're only familiar with Porter from an artisitic standpoint the biography of his family life, lifestyle, manners, and politics will be shocking and difficult to bring together.
While in the middle of reading this book I had to let it go for a few months and read other things then go back to it. Porter's activities in the late 1940's to the mid 1950's were especially difficult to reconcile considering the subject matter of his output.
It seems the frankness in tone of the biography is totally in tune with Porter's ways of communicating. I suspect if Porter had lived longer then such an autobiography probably would have been as revealing.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Artist of Quiet Contradiction
Comment: This book displays great beauty: the paper is beautiful, the writing is flawless and the subject matter (the art work) is cool and elegant. But the artist's life was a difficult & complex equation of contractions: he was born patrician, yet he was a leftist (he attended Socialist demonstrations in a chauffeur driven limousine); he was highly verbal and intellectual, yet he painted the coolest (visually abstract) emotion; he made realist art in an abstract art time; he was married yet he had sex with men; he was surrounded by a loving family, yet he remained remote and distant; he lived in the country, yet he was always running to the city; he was bright and balanced, yet his best (lifelong) friend was mentally deranged; he made the most stable art from the most unstable life; he was slender and active, yet he died early of a surprise heart attack; he was on the verge of greatness (and nearly penniless much of the time), but cared little for fame and less for money. This assortment of profound conflicts make for a great story, and the art works themselves tower above everything in their lofty remove, quiet dignity, and timeless spirit. Find out why that is so (and what it may mean for the history of 20th century art criticism) and read this haunting and very personal book you'll not forget.
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Title: Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Joan Ludman, Rackstraw Downes, William C. Agee, John T. Spike ISBN: 1555951651 Publisher: Hudson Hills Pr Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $100.00 |
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Title: Art in Its Own Terms: Selected Criticism, 1935-1975 by Fairfield Porter, Rackstraw Downes ISBN: 0944072313 Publisher: Zoland Books Pub. Date: March, 1993 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Fairfield Porter, Drawings From the Estate by Justin Spring ISBN: 0915057727 Publisher: Hirschl & Adler Galleries Pub. Date: 29 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Hawthorne on Painting by Charles W. Hawthorne ISBN: 048620653X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1960 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: American Realism by Edward Lucie-Smith ISBN: 0500283567 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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