Looking East

Brice Marden, Michael Mazur, Pat Steir

• Author(s): John Stomberg,
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Pages: 108
• ISBN_10: 1881450163
  ISBN_13: 9781881450160
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Art / General , Art / History / General , Art / American / General , Art / Individual Artists / General , Art / Techniques / Painting , Political Science / International Relations / General , Social Science / Customs & Traditions ,

Description:... Western artists have incorporated Asian styles and techniques into their work at different periods since the 1860s, says Stomberg, but the Looking East artists draw on that legacy in entirely new ways. All three painters, East Coast natives who were born at roughly the same time and studied with some of the same teachers, became fascinated with the art of China in the 1980s after pursuing very different paths. Marden made his reputation as a minimalist in the 1960s and 1970s, Mazur turned to realism, and Steir became a leader in the postmodernist movement.