LOEB Sonia, LOEB Albert, RAMOND Sylvie.
Robert Guinan. Chicago: On the Edge of the American Dream.
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| N° d'inventaire | 29525 |
| Format | 23 x 29 |
| Détails | 285 p., illustrated, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782359064094 |
A native of Watertown, a small town in upstate New York, Guinan graduated from high school in 1951. His military service in the Air Force in 1953 took him to Libya and Turkey. In 1959, he moved to Chicago to take courses in art history, painting, and photography at the Art Institute. He began painting in the styles of Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, which dominated the art scene at the time.
From 1965, he turned away from it by creating object-paintings where collage was introduced. From 1970, he adopted a realist style, henceforth taking as his models essentially the underprivileged, whatever their origin, most often blacks, from the former ghettos and poor neighborhoods of Chicago. The French public has been familiar with Guinan's painting since the spring of 1973, the date of his first exhibition at the Albert Loeb gallery in Paris.
However, he remained isolated in his own country. Deeply attached to Henri Toulouse-Lautrec and Edgar Degas, he followed in the footsteps of Edward Hopper. But while the latter depicted anonymous figures, Guinan painted portraits, taking an interest in the lives of his models and becoming friends with them. The book presents around fifty paintings, bar scenes, urban landscapes, portraits, and street and subway scenes, to which are added around fifteen drawings and two series of lithographs, one on the theme of slavery, the other inspired by war poems by the great English poet Wilfred Owen, a pacifist who died at the front a few days before the armistice of the 1914-18 war.
From 1965, he turned away from it by creating object-paintings where collage was introduced. From 1970, he adopted a realist style, henceforth taking as his models essentially the underprivileged, whatever their origin, most often blacks, from the former ghettos and poor neighborhoods of Chicago. The French public has been familiar with Guinan's painting since the spring of 1973, the date of his first exhibition at the Albert Loeb gallery in Paris.
However, he remained isolated in his own country. Deeply attached to Henri Toulouse-Lautrec and Edgar Degas, he followed in the footsteps of Edward Hopper. But while the latter depicted anonymous figures, Guinan painted portraits, taking an interest in the lives of his models and becoming friends with them. The book presents around fifty paintings, bar scenes, urban landscapes, portraits, and street and subway scenes, to which are added around fifteen drawings and two series of lithographs, one on the theme of slavery, the other inspired by war poems by the great English poet Wilfred Owen, a pacifist who died at the front a few days before the armistice of the 1914-18 war.
From 1965, he turned away from it by creating object-paintings where collage was introduced. From 1970, he adopted a realist style, henceforth taking as his models essentially the underprivileged, whatever their origin, most often blacks, from the former ghettos and poor neighborhoods of Chicago. The French public has been familiar with Guinan's painting since the spring of 1973, the date of his first exhibition at the Albert Loeb gallery in Paris.
However, he remained isolated in his own country. Deeply attached to Henri Toulouse-Lautrec and Edgar Degas, he followed in the footsteps of Edward Hopper. But while the latter depicted anonymous figures, Guinan painted portraits, taking an interest in the lives of his models and becoming friends with them. The book presents around fifty paintings, bar scenes, urban landscapes, portraits, and street and subway scenes, to which are added around fifteen drawings and two series of lithographs, one on the theme of slavery, the other inspired by war poems by the great English poet Wilfred Owen, a pacifist who died at the front a few days before the armistice of the 1914-18 war.