In his paintings, paint sculptures, and drawings, Glenn Brown confronts the history of art with a contemporary understanding of paint’s materiality and a barbed sense of color. This Collector’s Edition treats the viewer to a close encounter with Brown’s eye-deceiving renderings of brushstrokes from sources between sci-fi and the old masters.
This book has been conceived and realized in close collaboration with the artist, curating an overview of his work in unprecedented depth. All authors have worked with Brown before to now deliver an incisive portrait of the artist, an art-historical survey of his work and development, as well as essays on different artistic approaches and genres. Comments written by Brown especially for this edition discuss specific works and artistic choices.
More than anything, it is the book’s large format that makes the eye-deceivingly smooth brushwork and exuberant lines come alive, allowing viewers to immerse themselves in every detail and share the artist’s contagious love of painting and paint. “I’m rather like Dr Frankenstein, constructing paintings out of the residue or dead parts of other artists’ work. I hope to create a sense of strangeness by bringing together examples of the way the best historic and modern-day artists have depicted their personal sense of the world. I see their worlds from multiple or schizophrenic perspectives, through all their eyes. Their sources of inspiration suggest things I would never normally see.” —Glenn Brown
Collector's Edition (No. 213–1,000), numbered and signed by Glenn Brown .
