books by Susan Landauer (not-so-still engagement collection)

books by Susan Landauer

books:

3 reviews
Susan Landauer, Jean Stern, ...

University of California Press, 1996

The colors are perfect.
I got curious about California impressionism a few years ago when someone saw my sketchbook and pointed out that what I was doing was called "plein air" art. One of my favorite things to do is to go up into the hills over Berkeley with my sketchbook and get pastel dust all over my nose and on some paper. I poked around for quite a while to find more images of this style but felt like the images ...

The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism

1 review
Susan Landauer

University of California Press, 1996

Best in field
Well done, gave me a full understanding of the subject, very well written, great book to quote.

Dream Games: The Art of Robert Schwartz
Susan Landauer

San Jose Museum of Art, 2004

Dream Games: The Art of Robert Schwartz Robert Schwartz is best known for his meticulously crafted oil paintings and gouaches, which are often no larger than eight inches square and feature enigmatic, dreamlike narratives. Schwartz painted his miniatures, rendered in jewel-like colors with astonishing detail using what art critic David Bonetti has described as a "lapidary?s skill." Although Schwartz began his artistic career in ...

Obata's Yosemite: The Art and Letters of Chiura Obata from His Trip to the High Sierra in 1927

1 review
Chiura Obata, Janice Tolhurst Driesbach, ...

Yosemite Association, 1993

Obata and Yosemite!
Chiura Obata (1885-1975) was an artist who, amongst other things, loved Yosemite. He was born in Japan where he became well ground in traditional Japanese painting and was exposed to Western art. His personal views looked forward and became involved the progressive nihonga movement. Obata immigarated to California in 1903. He traveled up and down the coast painting and eventualy became a teacher ...

Elmer Bischoff: The Ethics of Paint
Susan Landauer

University of California Press, 2001

Elmer Bischoff (1916-1991) is generally regarded as one of the leaders among the artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who, after contributing to the local emergence of Abstract Expressionism during the 1940s and 50s, shifted the terms of their spectacularly sensuous brushwork to recognizable imagery. Bill Berkson writes that if "David Park was the classicist of the founding triad of the Bay Area Figurative painters, and Richard Diebenkorn the ...

The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture (The Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Imprint)

1 review
Susan Landauer, William H. Gerdts, ...

University of California Press, 2003

Still Life Extraordinaire
I love this book; anyone who paints still life or likes still life should have this book in his/her library. The book presents an amazing variety of approaches to still life represented in excellent color plates. Diebenkorn painted a knife in a glass of water -- who knew? Most of the greats have painted still life at one time or another (or included it as background); this book shows why, ...

Selections: The San Jose Museum of Art Permanent Collection

San Jose Museum of Art, 2004

The San Jose Museum of Art celebrates its thirty-fifth anniversary with the publication of this major book featuring selections of contemporary art from the Museum?s rapidly growing permanent collection. Established in 1969, the San Jose Museum of Art has become one of the leading arts institutions in the San Francisco Bay Area. This 264-page publication features a selection of what the Museum believes to be the best regional, national, and ...