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Aphorisms for Artists

100 Ways Toward Better Art
Brief Description
A Volume of Timeless Wisdom for Artists to Consult Like an Oracle Why do young artists struggle to find their voices? Walter Darby Bannard, a renowned teacher, critic, and internationally exhibited painter, contemplated that question for more than two decades. At the urging of one of... Read More
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A Volume of Timeless Wisdom for Artists to Consult Like an Oracle

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A Volume of Timeless Wisdom for Artists to Consult Like an Oracle

Why do young artists struggle to find their voices? Walter Darby Bannard, a renowned teacher, critic, and internationally exhibited painter, contemplated that question for more than two decades. At the urging of one of his former students, Bannard set down his thoughts in a short book, Aphorisms for Artists: 100 Ways Toward Better Art. It is at once a volume of practical art-making wisdom and an engaging piece of personal philosophy, both wry and readable.

Open to any page, and you'll find a memorable gem of wisdom, followed by a brief expansion by Bannard that adds more insight. It is a necessary reference to keep on hand in the studio, and a perfect gift for the aspiring artist to read and re-read, and to consult at times of artistic troubles.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781621538394

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 May 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Allworth Press,U.S.

Contributors:

  • Foreword by Franklin Einspruch

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 245g

Pages: 240

About the Author

Walter Darby Bannard (1934-2016) was one of the foremost painters of American abstraction. His work was included in hundreds of exhibitions, including the seminal "Post-Painterly Abstraction" exhibition organized by renowned critic Clement Greenberg at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1964. Bannard's paintings reside in many museum collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Centre Pompidou. Bannard's essays appeared in Artforum, Art in America, and the New York Times, among dozens of other publications. He taught art at the University of Miami from 1989 until his death in 2016.

Franklin Einspruch is the editor of Bannard's archive. Also a student of Walter Darby Bannard, Einspruch's own art has appeared in more than sixty exhibitions. He has been a resident artist in Italy, Greece, Taiwan, and other programs around the United States. A 2019 Fulbright award appointed him as the Fulbright-Q21/MuseumsQuartier Artist-in-Residence in Vienna. Einspruch has authored hundreds of essays and art reviews for many publications, including The New Criterion and Art in America. He lives and works in rural New Hampshire.

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