<p>This volume presents 30 color reproductions of the work of Pat Steir, a painter who has investigated and redefined the different modes possible in painting. Her technique is to utilize limitation to focus attention on certain painting issues. In light of the marginal position women hold in the history of painting, she has deliberately changed her style, thus bringing together conceptualist thinking and different means of paint application. The book contains an extensive essay on her work, as well as an interview. Oversize: 9.25x11.5</p>

Dazzling Water, Dazzling Light

Arts & Photography

YAU, John

Steir, Pat

Weidle, Barbara

Individual Artists

Pamela Auchincloss Gallery

<p>Steir was born in 1940 in Newark, New Jersey, and currently lives and works in New York City. She attended the Pratt Institute in New York from 1956 to 1958, and Boston University College of Fine Arts from 1958 to 1960. She then returned to Pratt, receiving a BFA in 1962. Both institutions have since honored Steir: Boston University in 2001 with a Distinguished Alumni Award, Pratt in 1991 with an honorary doctorate.She rose to fame in the 1970s with monochromatic canvases of roses and other images that were X-ed out. The artist explained, "I wanted to destroy images as symbols. To make the image a symbol for a symbol. I had to act it out_make the image and cross it out. ...no imagery, but at the same time endless imagery. Every nuance of paint texture worked as an image."</p>

Pat Steir Paintings

RATCLIFF, Carter

History

Harry N. Abrams

Arbitrary order: Paintings by Pat Steir, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, May 27-July 17, 1983

The Museum

Pat Steir

Waldman, Anne

History & Criticism

Cheim & Read

Dazzling Water, Dazzling Light: Pat Steir Paintings 1979-1997 (The Art Profile Series)

Hard Pr Inc

Pat Steir: Gravures = prints : 1976-1988 (French Edition)

Reference

Language Study & Reference

Tate Gallery

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