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VINCENT DESIDERIO, PAINTINGS 1975-2005 [Signed]

VINCENT DESIDERIO, PAINTINGS 1975-2005 [Signed]

VINCENT DESIDERIO, PAINTINGS 1975-2005 [Signed]
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VINCENT DESIDERIO, PAINTINGS 1975-2005 [Signed] Hardback - 2005

by Desiderio, Vincent [Paintings]; Bradway, Todd [Editor]

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New York: Distributed Arts Publishers, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 235 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good dust jacket. Pictorial dust jacket with red lettering on cover and spine. Book is in full gray cloth binding with same red lettering on cover and spine. Jacket is wrapped in a new archival mylar sleeve and shows mild shelf and edge wear, with a small closed tear in the bottom fore corner. Price unclipped: "$75.00". Boards show negligible shelf and edge wear; faint water damage on front board. Text block clean. Inscribed in blue ink by Vincent Desiderio on half title page: "For my dear friends June and Julie / Thank you for all of your support. I love you. Vincent / New York 2005". Shelved in Room A Oversized. 1404177. Special Collections.
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  • Title VINCENT DESIDERIO, PAINTINGS 1975-2005 [Signed]
  • Author Desiderio, Vincent [Paintings]; Bradway, Todd [Editor]
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 250
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Distributed Arts Publishers, New York
  • Publication date 2005
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1404177
  • ISBN 9781933045078 / 1933045078
  • Weight 4.65 lbs (2.11 kg)
  • Dimensions 11 x 12 x 1.04 in (27.94 x 30.48 x 2.64 cm)
  • Category Art & Art Instruction
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005018036
  • Dewey Decimal Code 759.13
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

The distinguished art critic Donald Kuspit reserved a chapter of his book, The Rebirth of Painting in the Late Twentieth Century, for Vincent Desiderio, who, he says, "pictures privacy, with great sensibility and masterful craft" and "Old Master brilliance." This significant monograph, the first on the artist, will gain him the praise and audience his startling accomplishments and empathy deserve, as well as raise him to the top rank of contemporary painters, alongside Mark Tansey, Eric Fischl, John Currin and Gerhard Richter. More than 100 of Desiderio's works, some of them enormous canvases and triptychs, are faithfully reproduced here, and, thanks in part to five gatefolds their painstaking detail and sweeps of emotion can be truly appreciated. Desiderio's repeated themes and motifs, appearing in often perplexing narratives of great psychological complexity, strike at the intellect and the heart: art history (often manifested in piles of books open to paintings), human intimacy, heroic behavior and, perhaps most viscerally, the plight of the artist's handicapped son, Sam. Rounding out the volume are many works on paper and excerpts from the artist's sketchbooks, an interview by Donald Kuspit, and essays by Lawrence Weschler, Barry Schwabsky and Mia Fineman. Most of all, in Desiderio's highly original works, the viewer will rediscover painting's ability to both astonish and move.

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