James Holl
The Landscape Painter 1972–2023
304 pages, 510 images, Published by Edizioni Grifo, Italy
The 1970s was a period of significant cultural transition in New York City, a vital center of the art world. To be in the city was to witness the eclipse of modernism by postmodernism. The utopian aspirations of the modernists, their tenets of originality, and what it was to be new were superseded by popular culture, kitsch, appropriation, and politics. Theories addressing art and culture were revised. The city itself was transformed from a gritty environment hospitable to bohemians into an ethos of shopping centers for the upward mobile.
In 1975, James Holl arrived on a Greyhound bus in Times Square to become enmeshed in this turbulent time. The Landscape Painter tells the story through his paintings and sculptures, essays of his personal and public encounters, theoretical confrontations, and reconciliations with the evolving culture of art from that critical time to the present.
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Jim Holl
58 pages, text and 23 images
Since the industrial revolution, humankind has been enlightened by scientific discoveries concerning the workings of the universe. New postulations on commonplace phenomena have led science to the threshold of metaphysics.
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The Landscape Painter
Jim Holl
58 pages, text and 23 images
This book recounts my efforts to come to terms, to understand through art, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, art and life, artifice and authenticity. I came of age in the mid-1970s. At that time the course of modern art had been, depending on the date chosen, evolving for more than a hundred years. By the beginning of the 1970s, in some quarters, modern art had been declared as having reached its apotheosis. Read More
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