Title
Robert Vickrey: The magic of Realism
Files
Document Type
Book
Description/Summary
A comprehensive survey of the 60-year career of a master of tempera painting, an artist who was included in nine Whitney Museum of American Art Annual Exhibitions. 80 color plates show off the brilliant, light-infused compositions of Vickrey's paintings. Monograph places Vickrey in the context of twentieth-century American art.
Robert Vickrey's unique vision and meticulous, painstaking technique sustained him throughout a sixty-year career. Widely considered to be a master of egg tempera, he used the same labor-intensive medium as Renaissance painters, including Giotto and Cennini. But Vickrey's concerns were distinctly twentieth-century in the subjects and themes he chose, from childhood innocence to the dichotomy of urban versus country living.
"A quintessential Realist, Vickrey endeavoured to explore the human condition within a distinctively American environment," writes author Philip Eliasoph, who argues that Vickrey's work built a bridge from Surrealism and New Objectivity to Magic Realism. Described by the New York Times as the "world's most proficient craftsman in tempera painting, [and] an immaculate technician," Vickrey's oeuvre is the "fiercely independent work of one of its most unorthodox and even most daring inventors," according to Eliasoph.
ISBN
9781555952921
Publication Date
2009
Publication Information
Eliasoph, P., "Robert Vickrey: The magic of Realism", [Foreword by Virginia M. Mecklenburg] Hudson Hills Press, New York, 2009
Recommended Citation
Eliasoph, Philip, "Robert Vickrey: The magic of Realism" (2009). Visual & Performing Arts Faculty Book and Media Gallery. 15.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/visualandperformingarts-books/15
Comments
COpyright 2009 Hudson Hills Press