Question of Emphasis, a: Louise Fishman Drawing

American artist Louise Fishman’s physical and process-driven work re-imagines the Abstract Expressionist model into a vehicle for dialogue about history and emotion centred in the artist’s identities as Jewish, feminist and lesbian. A Question of Emphasis presents a vast selection of her works in a single volume, encompassing collage, oil and wax, thread, acrylic text, ink, charcoal, printmaking, oil stick, water-colour and tempera.Though she is primarily a painter, Fishman has worked with a number of different mediums to create works on paper since the early 1960s. Fishman conceives of her works on paper not as studies for later paintings but as discrete pieces of art, generally small- and medium-scale and frequently sculptural and tactile. New writing as well as an interview between Fishman and artist Ulrike Müller accompany a wide selection of works.
ISBN 9781646570171. Krannert Art Museum. hb. 144 pages. 170 colour ills. 22.9 x 25.4 cm..
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