Julian Schnabel
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
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few figures in the art world have commanded as much controversy and reverence as Julian Schnabel, the larger-than-life New York painter who stormed the international art scene in the early 1980s with his monumental broken-plate canvases and unapologetic Neo-Expressionist vision. This exhibition catalogue, published to accompany his October–November 1986 show at The Pace Gallery on East 57th Street in New York City, presents a focused and intimate document of Schnabel's work at a pivotal moment in his career, showcasing the raw, visceral energy and grand ambition that made him one of the most talked-about artists of his generation. Produced by Pace Gallery Publications, the catalogue stands as a significant artefact of the 1980s New York art world — a period defined by excess, reinvention, and the fierce reassertion of painting as a dominant cultural force. Schnabel's work, notorious for its monumental scale, unconventional surfaces, and layered symbolism, challenges the boundaries between high art and personal mythology, drawing equally from art history, religious iconography, and raw autobiography. For collectors, scholars, and admirers of postwar American art, this catalogue offers an irreplaceable window into a defining chapter of one of contemporary art's most singular and polarising careers — leaving one to wonder just how far the legend of Schnabel truly reaches.
Author: Julian Schnabel
Format: Paperback
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few figures in the art world have commanded as much controversy and reverence as Julian Schnabel, the larger-than-life New York painter who stormed the international art scene in the early 1980s with his monumental broken-plate canvases and unapologetic Neo-Expressionist vision. This exhibition catalogue, published to accompany his October–November 1986 show at The Pace Gallery on East 57th Street in New York City, presents a focused and intimate document of Schnabel's work at a pivotal moment in his career, showcasing the raw, visceral energy and grand ambition that made him one of the most talked-about artists of his generation. Produced by Pace Gallery Publications, the catalogue stands as a significant artefact of the 1980s New York art world — a period defined by excess, reinvention, and the fierce reassertion of painting as a dominant cultural force. Schnabel's work, notorious for its monumental scale, unconventional surfaces, and layered symbolism, challenges the boundaries between high art and personal mythology, drawing equally from art history, religious iconography, and raw autobiography. For collectors, scholars, and admirers of postwar American art, this catalogue offers an irreplaceable window into a defining chapter of one of contemporary art's most singular and polarising careers — leaving one to wonder just how far the legend of Schnabel truly reaches.