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Landauer, Susan, author.
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De Forest, Roy, 1930-2007.
Artists -- California -- Biography.
Animals in art.
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Of dogs and other pe...
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Of dogs and other people : the art of Roy De Forest / Susan Landauer ; with an introduction by Michael Duncan.
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Landauer, Susan, author.
Oakland, California : Oakland Museum of California in association with University of California Press, c2017.
Subjects
De Forest, Roy, 1930-2007.
Artists -- California -- Biography.
Animals in art.
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9780520292208 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0520292200 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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199 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
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Beginnings -- Post-war San Francisco -- In pursuit of the marvelous -- Valley of the dots: the early years at UC Davis -- The phantasmagoric artist -- Framing the journey: sculpture and late work.
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"Roy De Forest's brightly colored, crazy-quilted jungles dotted with nipples of paint and inhabited by a cast of characters uniquely his own (a perennial favorite being his wild-eyed, pointy-eared dogs) appeal to a broad spectrum of viewers from young to old, from the casual visitor to the most sophisticated art aficionado. OMCA's project aims to reassess De Forest's art-historical position, placing him in a national rather than solely regional/West Coast context. Landauer positions De Forest as part of a bicoastal alternative current of American art that has been poorly documented and deliberately ran counter to better publicized tendencies of the 1960s and 1970s, notably Pop, Minimalism, and post-painterly abstraction. Despite the playfulness of his work, close study of De Forest's art reveals deep layers of meaning. He was a fan of popular science fiction and adventure stories, but he was also well versed in Australian aboriginal art, ukiyo-e prints, poetry, literature, and the history of philosophy. He enjoyed secreting obscure art-historical references into his work: animals might assume postures found in Medieval or Renaissance art, or a drawing that appears to depict a comic-book character may in fact refer to Titian's triple-headed allegory of Prudence. This engaging publication presents gorgeous color reproductions of 150 of De Forest's finest artworks, plus a variety of figure illustrations that illuminate the artist's diverse sources and freewheeling social and creative milieu in Northern California."--Provided by publisher.
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