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"Peter Heller, the celebrated author of the breakout best-seller The Dog Stars, returns with an achingly beautiful, wildly suspenseful second novel about an artist trying to outrun his past. Years ago, a well-known expressionist painter named Jim Stegner shot a man in a bar. The man lived, Jim served his time, and he has learned to live with the dark impulses that sometimes overtake him. Jim enjoys a quiet life in the valleys of Colorado. He works...
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[2016]
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The last major collective Abstract Expressionism exhibition in the UK took place in 1959. This publication, and the exhibition it accompanies, examines the origins of the movement and seeks to re-evaluate it, recognising its complex and fluid reality, and encompassing sculptors as well as some of the most famous painters of the twentieth century.00Exhibition: Royal Academy of Arts, London, Great Britain (24.09.2016 - 02.01.2017) / Guggenheim Museum,...
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c2003
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Provides biographical profiles of major artists representative of the abstract expressionist movement which took place in the U.S. in the 1940s and 1950s, each with discussion of the individual's youth, inspiration, and lasting influence; and includes a brief overview of abstract expressionism, a time line, and a glossary.
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