Jules de Balincourt

HardCover. Pub Date :2009-09-01 224 English Rizzoli One of the most exciting and intuitive painters of his generation. channeling a uniquely American perspective on our current moment.Jules de Balincourt burst onto the art scene in the early 2000s and has been a critical and commercial success since then. What curators and critics saw in the work was a painterly language that was as singular as it was insightful-a faux-naif style to communicate highly developed and sophisticated ideas about the nature of government and communities. no doubt inspired by post 911 America as well as the's artist very unconventional upbringing in quasi-hippy communes of Southern California in the late 1970s.In this most comprehensive book on the artist's work accompanying a major mid-career retrospective. the entirety of the artist's oeuvre is considered. Layered thro...