"On the process of painting, American painter Richard Diebenkorn once wrote, "I want painting to be difficult to do. The more obstacles, obstructions, problems ... the better." In part, he meant that the freest artistic expression was often the result of some sort of restraint. Much like Shakespeare writing within the rigorous poetic form of the sonnet, Diebenkorn found his format in the vertical, rectangular, human-size canvases that he ..."
"In the 1950s American painter Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) took a dramatic turn away from his early work, exploring new vocabularies of both abstract and representational styles, which would come to be known as the artist's "Berkeley period." This era has long been recognized as one of the most interesting chapters in postwar American art, yielding many of Diebenkorn's best-known works. Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953-19 ..."
"Audiences today generally know Richard Diebenkorn s career in terms of three major evolutions: the Sausalito, Albuquerque, Urbana, and early Berkeley periods of Abstract Expressionism (1947 1955); the Berkeley figurative/representational period (1955 1966); and the Ocean Park (1967 1988) and Healdsburg (1988 1992) series of abstractions. Yet Diebenkorn s earliest paintings and drawings remain little known. This catalogue, compiled to ac ..."
"Internationally acclaimed artist Richard Diebenkorn lived in Albuquerque from 1950-1952, where he executed an impressive body of more than a hundred paintings, drawings, and welded-metal sculpture. Until recently much of Diebenkorn's New Mexico work remained forgotten. With his coming to New Mexico, Diebenkorn moved toward a kind of painting that, although rigorous and considered, emits energies of freedom, freshness, and spontaneity an ..."
Calenture by Kent Shaw, RichardDiebenkorn Hardcover, 100 Pages, Published 2008 by University Of Tampa Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59732-039-9, ISBN: 1-59732-039-0
"In this memorable first book, Kent Shaw explores layers of devotion, illusion, and sacrifice in abstract and personal terms. At age eighteen, he enlisted for six years of service in the U.S. Navy. Midway through, his unadulterated patriotism shifted to unanticipated doubt. Calenture whose title refers to a sickness sailors suffer as they come to believe the ocean is a meadow, try to walk into it, and find themselves drowning draws upon ..."
"Richard Diebenkorn is an expanded edition of Gerald Nordland's authoritative study of the painter, first published in 1987 and now reissued by Rizzoli, a leading publisher of fine-art books. Diebenkorn, who died in 1993, long ago entered the pantheon of great modernist artists. He was an early abstract expressionist, then went through a less successful stage of figural painting. Abruptly changing direction in the late 1960s, he rediscov ..."
"Collected here for the first time are rarely seen and largely unpublished figurative drawings and paintings on paper that represent a period of exploration and innovation for Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993). Perhaps the most renowned West Coast painter of the twentieth century, Diebenkorn alternated between the figurative and the abstract. These pieces, dating from roughly the mid-1950s to the late 1960s, not only display his facility wi ..."
"Throughout his long career, Richard Diebenkorn always kept a sketchbooka portable studio, as he called itto capture his ideas. Scattered across these books are deeply personal sketches of his wife and studies of the human figure, grand landscape studies, and evidence of the development and maturation of Diebenkorn's signature approaches to figuration and abstraction. Taken together, these sketchbooks offer a nearly complete look at his ..."
""In the 1950s American painter Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) took a dramatic turn away from his early work, exploring new vocabularies of both abstract and representational styles, which would come to be known as the artist's "Berkeley ..."
"Richard Diebenkorn, who died in 1993, is generally acknowledged as one of the most influential American artists of the twentieth century. The luminous abstractions of his later career and the innovative figurative works of his middle years firmly established him as a master in the high tradition of modernism.This revised and expanded edition of the first comprehensive monograph on the artist presents a rich selection of the artist's oeu ..."
"A must-have for anyone interested in these two beloved West Coast artists, best known for their geometric abstractions of the California landscape.Featuring the pairings of more than 50 paintings, this book shows the connection of these two artists like never before. Richard Diebenkorn and Wayne Thiebaud were close friends; they shared the inspiration of California and experimented with perspective to capture their surroundings.The book ..."
Poses(1st Edition) by Genine Lentine Paperback, 127 Pages, Published 2012 by Kelly's Cove Press ISBN-13: 978-1-62407-143-0, ISBN: 1-62407-143-0
"Richard Diebenkorn, who died in 1993, is generally acknowledged as one of the most influential American artists of the twentieth century. The luminous abstractions of his later career and the innovative figurative works of his middle years firmly established him as a master in the high tradition of modernism.This revised and expanded edition of the first comprehensive monograph on the artist presents a rich selection of the artist's oeu ..."
"Diebenkorn produced a vast and sophisticated body of works on paper. This volume reveals the importance of these drawings in the Ocean Park period and, with the aid of documentary photographs, highlights pertinent aspects of the artist's studio spaces and working processes. The luminous textural details of the drawings come alive in this intimate book."
"Vija Celmins -- André Derain -- Richard Diebenkorn -- Jean Dubuffet -- Sam Francis -- Lucian Freud -- Arshile Gorky -- Mark Grotjahn -- Philip Guston -- Jasper Johns -- Roy Lichtenstein -- Henri Matisse -- Pablo Picasso -- Robert ..."
"Artists' Estates offers a fascinating journey into the complex and competitive art world through the distinctive lens of those who deal with the paintings, prints, and sculpture that artists leave behind after their deaths. Bringing together interviews conducted by Magda Salvesen, the widow of the second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter Jon Schueler, this unique book provides a window into the goals and desires, the conflicts a ..."