James Brooks: A Painting Is a Real Thing

James Brooks: A Painting Is a Real Thing provides an overdue reappraisal of this artist who boldly disrupted any tendency toward repeated formula or purely formal decisions in his work, extending the vitality and validity of Abstract Expressionism well beyond its textbook limits. It features paintings and a selection of important works on paper from the entire expanse of Brooks's four-decade career, beginning with his work as a muralist for the procurement division of the Treasury Department in the 1930s; the works created in the Middle East during his military service as a combat artist for the War Department's Art Advisory Committee in the 1940s, his early lithographs and paintings influenced by the Southwestern regionalism of his formative Dallas years; to his abstract expressionist works of the 1950s and his later colorful abstractions that presaged some of the art of today.

• | Author: James Brooks
• | Publisher: Delmonico Books/Parrish Art Museum
• | Publication Date: Oct 24, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 176 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1938922050
• | ISBN-13: 9781938922053