Louisa Matthiasdottir

Matthiasdottir, Louisa. Perl, Jed

ISBN 10: 155595197X / ISBN 13: 9781555951979

Published by Hudson Hills, USA, 2000

29 x 29cm 200pp very good hardback in dust jacket, minor bump to lower right-hand corner, pages at lower edge slightly shelfworn. Louisa MatthÌasdÛttir was an Icelandic-American painter. Louisa was born in ReykjavÌk. From 1925 to 1937 she grew up in the famous H?f?i house since her family resided there. She showed artistic ability at an early age, and studied first in Denmark and then under Marcel Gromaire in Paris.Packed with colour reproductions. Seller Inventory # 28454

Synopsis:

A monograph on an Icelandic-American painter who reinvented Realism. Born in Iceland in 1917, Louisa Matthiasdottir studied in Copenhagen and Paris and was a prominent member of Iceland's first avant-garde. In 1932 she went to New York to study under Hans Hoffman, a mentor whose emphasis on structure and strong colour she found congenial to her own tendencies. Matthiasdottir was one of several post-war artists in America who, despite Abstract Expressionism's universal success, persisted in the notion that abstraction and representation were not mutually exclusive states, and that one could paint from reality in a way that gave form, colour and pigment a power of their own. Thus her overriding artistic challenge was how to exploit the tension between recognizable subject matter and the pure form of Mondrian, and how to make these opposites coincide.

About the Author: JED PERL is art critic of the New Republic and lives in New York, as does MARTICA SAWIN, who is an art teacher and art historian.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Louisa Matthiasdottir
Publisher: Hudson Hills, USA
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Hardback
Condition: Very good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: First Edition.