David Salle
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
A landmark document in the study of postmodern American painting, David Salle presents a focused and authoritative survey of one of the most provocative and intellectually charged artists to emerge from the Neo-Expressionist movement of the 1980s. Published by the prestigious Cologne gallery Michael Werner, this volume chronicles Salle's extraordinary ability to layer disparate, seemingly unrelated images into compositions that disturb, seduce, and challenge the viewer in equal measure, capturing a body of work that defined an era of radical artistic experimentation. Authored by Wilfried Dickhoff — a sharp and incisive critic deeply embedded in the European avant-garde — the text argues for Salle's central importance to the discourse of appropriation, desire, and cultural fragmentation that dominated late twentieth-century art theory. Dickhoff's prose mirrors the density and ambition of Salle's canvases, weaving together aesthetic analysis and philosophical provocation. For collectors, scholars, and admirers of contemporary art, this rare 1989 publication remains an essential artefact — raising questions about meaning, authorship, and the image that are as urgent today as when the paint first dried.
Author: Wilfried Dickhoff
Format: Hardback
Published: 1989, Michael Werner in Köln
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
A landmark document in the study of postmodern American painting, David Salle presents a focused and authoritative survey of one of the most provocative and intellectually charged artists to emerge from the Neo-Expressionist movement of the 1980s. Published by the prestigious Cologne gallery Michael Werner, this volume chronicles Salle's extraordinary ability to layer disparate, seemingly unrelated images into compositions that disturb, seduce, and challenge the viewer in equal measure, capturing a body of work that defined an era of radical artistic experimentation. Authored by Wilfried Dickhoff — a sharp and incisive critic deeply embedded in the European avant-garde — the text argues for Salle's central importance to the discourse of appropriation, desire, and cultural fragmentation that dominated late twentieth-century art theory. Dickhoff's prose mirrors the density and ambition of Salle's canvases, weaving together aesthetic analysis and philosophical provocation. For collectors, scholars, and admirers of contemporary art, this rare 1989 publication remains an essential artefact — raising questions about meaning, authorship, and the image that are as urgent today as when the paint first dried.