Looking East: Brice Marden, Michael Mazur, Pat Steir

This book focuses on three contemporary painters who have found profound inspiration in Chinese art. Brice Marden, Michael Mazur, and Pat Steir have engaged in passionate relationships with various art forms from China and responded quite differently in their paintings. The successful hybridization of East and West witnessed in the work of these three artists has considerably extended the life of modernism by reemphasizing its latent Asian component. The recent work of these three artists is examined in depth, as are other American artists with an interest in Asian art, among them James McNeill Whistler, Georgia O'Keeffe, Mark Tobey, and Agnes Martin.