Fairfield Porter a life in art – Justin Spring
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This absorbing biography of Fairfield Porter makes clear John Ashbery`s assessment of Porter as “perhaps the major American artist of this century.” Justin Spring tells of Porter`s troubled, bohemian life, his struggle to raise a family while dealing with a bisexual identity, his work as an artist producing realist works in the midst of the Abstract Expressionist movement, and his late triumph as a painter and critic.
Fairfield Porter was not one to boast of his ancestry; he rarely mentioned his distinguished relatives and forebears, even later in life to those friends who would have been intrigued by them. Asked about his family background in 1968, Porter merely said, “I think I have ancestors who came over on the Mayflower.
I’m not sure but I think I do.” They dated back, he thought, at least to the seventeenth century. Porter knew that he could also claim leading New England intellectuals, clergymen, and statesmen of the previous century as kin. But his ancestry was just coincidental to his project of creating visual art, and he was temperamentally disinclined to think more highly of himself because he was descended from several leading American families.
Moreover, his politics were such that he disliked the idea of being associated with any particular class or of claiming precedence through background.
Fairfield Porter a life in art | Justin Spring
| Format | 17 × 24 cm |
|---|---|
| Autor | Justin Spring |
| Izdavač | Yale University Press |
| Mjesto izdanja | UK |
| Godina | 2000 |
| Broj stranica | 284 |
| Uvez | Tvrdi |
13,00 €
