Richard Diebenkorn
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Individual Artists
Richard Diebenkorn Details
Review "[a] luminous book..."David Coggins, www.huffingtonpost.com, 1/12/12"Seminal artwork from one of California's best-known artists is gathered here in this beautifully reproduced exhibition catalog."Los Angeles Times, 12/4/11 Read more From the Inside Flap This stunning exhibition catalogue celebrates in-depth for the first time Richard Diebenkorn's seminal Ocean Park works, serving as a major reference and a source of new scholarship on the series. Read more
Reviews
Important: look at the dates of the reviews!The descriptions of the enthusiastic reviewers are most likely are describing the earlier 1987 edition, given the dates of the reviews.This is a later, abbreviated edition of the 1987 book!The publisher described this 2015 book as an "expanded edition of Gerald Nordlund's authoritative" edition of 1987. You do not expand on a 248 page book by putting out a 189 page book.Further, the illustrations in this later editionare disappointing due to both the uneven color quality of the reproductions (too dark in several instances) and the fact that the paper has minimal coating. The illustrations are sort of a sampling from the works illlustrated many previous Diebenkorn monographs. If you have the classic and much more complete surveys by Livingston or Nordlund, you will find this book redundant. Certainly not the kind of in depth looks at any particular period or work provided by the Elderfield drawings suvey, the Ocean Park books or the Albuquerque or Berkeley books.
