Books by Martin Friedman and Complete Book Reviews
Martin Friedman, Author ABRAMS $45 (343p) ISBN 978-0-8109-5920-0
""Inspiration is for amateurs,"" according to Chuck Close, one of the most influential and pioneering figurative painters of our time, because ""waiting around to be hit on the head by a lightning bolt, you get nothing done.... Ideas flow out of the
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Martin Friedman, Author, Martin L. Friedman, Other Rizzoli International Publications $50 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1004-8
The 17 ``younger artists'' showcased in this interesting survey have little in common except that most of them achieved their mature styles in the 1970s and '80s, and all of them were featured in a sculpture exhibit at the Walker Art Center in...
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Martin Friedman, Author, Walker Art Center, Author, Rizzoli, Author Rizzoli International Publications $85 (568p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1267-7
With an incredibly comprehensive collection, the Walker art museum in Minneapolis enables visitors to follow trends and movements from the dawn of modernism onward, this mammoth catalogue makes clear. For example, one can trace biomorphism from Arp's
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