Jenny Saville
 | Rizzoli, 2005, Hardcover Customer Rating: 16 reviews Recommend |
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- ISBN13: 9780847827572
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At thirty-two, Jenny Saville has had a career most artists twice her age would envy. In 1992, the year she completed her studies at Glasgow School of Art, her graduation exhibition sold out. Most notably, one painting was bought by Charles Saatchi and, since then, her international reputation has grown at a rapid and steady pace.Jenny Saville is described as a "New Old Master" for the technical proficiency of her oversize nudes that have earned her comparisons to Rubens and Lucian Freud and universal praise from critics and art historians alike. For the conceptual underpinnings of her work, she has been hailed as one of the most interesting artists of the last decade. Her work has been shown alongside that of Damien Hirst and the other Young British Artists in the acclaimed and seminal survey of new British art Sensation at the Royal Academy (London, 1997) and the Brooklyn Museum of Art (New York, 2000).This is the only monograph devoted to the critically acclaimed young artist and features all of Jenny Saville's paintings to date-including many previously unpublished. This volume is being published in association with the Gagosian Gallery in London. The power of her brilliant and relentless embodiment of our worst anxieties about our own corporeality and gender is what distinguishes Saville from other paint-obsessed representers of the naked human body. To my eye, no other artist in recent memory has combined empathy and distance with such visual and emotional impact. -Linda Nochlin, Art in America, March 2000
Title: Jenny Saville
Sales Rank: 77496 in Books
Author: Gagosian Gallery
Publisher: Rizzoli, 2005-11-08, Hardcover, 160 pages, ISBN: 0847827577
Package Dimensions: 12.3 x 11 x 0.9 inches, 3.65 pounds
- Saville
- Beautiful pages and a great catalog of her current work. My favorite part of this book is that there are pages where it shows the painting to scale, i.e. the brush strokes and colors as large as they are on the gigantic works themselves. It is fascinating! Although her subject matter is not for everyone I still highly recommend this book for those who… More reviews
- Beautifully illustrated - but overdone
- The book opens with two short essays and a reprint from The Independent, January 30 1994, which is a statement by the artist about her work and her approach; in addition there is an interview with Jenny Saville, May 2005, in which she further describes her approach to painting. The book includes a Biography and a Bibliography. Of the text by far the more… More reviews
- She stunned the pros
- I pre-ordered this book and when it arrived, I was not disappointed. I pored over it for a few days before bringing it to the studio to show the artists who work in my studio. They were equally excited by this collection, but then what do we know? We just make our total livings at making artwork. It is our day job!
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- wow
- bought it at moma-snatched it up. love this painter-she is extremely talented. good book too. missed the last gagosian show:(… More reviews
- Very Nice Book
- This book is top-notch. The reproductions are very well done, and there are tons of close-up shots of individual paintings showing Saville's brush work. I would highly recommend this to anyone with an interest in contemporary art, portraiture, or figure painting. As a painting student, it is great to be able to see the whole painting on one page and then examine a series of close-ups and even… More reviews
