Hugh Steers: The Complete Paintings

Hugh Steers: The Complete Paintings
Author: Dale Peck, Cynthia Carr, James Smalls
Publisher: Visual Aids
Language: English
Pages: 256
Size: 30 x 23 cm
Weight: 1.4000 kg
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780967842561
Availability: In stock
Price: €395.00
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Condition: very good. Cover corners lightly banged from transport, otherwise as new.

Hugh Steers: The Complete Paintings is the first monograph focused on the career of American figurative painter Hugh Steers (1962-1995), whose life was cut short by AIDS, at the age of 32.

Committed to figurative painting at a time when it was out of favor with critics and collectors, Steers nonetheless gained appreciation for his expressionist-realist narratives of a life shadowed by isolation and mortality, yet infused with wry humor, camp, and what Steers himself called, a “gorgeous bleakness.” Unique among painters, Steers consciously brought AIDS, intimacy, and the body into the traditional vocabulary of painting.

Hugh Steers’ artwork is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Denver Art Museum.

Hugh Steers: The Complete Paintings features over 600 full-color images of Steers’ paintings, including over 85 full color plates, 45 color illustrations, personal photographs, and a complete annotated color checklist of Steers' paintings on canvas and paper. This beautiful hardcover book includes a foreword by Dale Peck and essays by Cynthia Carr and James Smalls, along with a complete exhibition history and bibliography.