Elmer Bischoff: The Ethics of Paint

by Susan Landauer

Book Overview

Elmer Bischoff (1916-1991) is generally regarded as one of the leaders among the artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who, after contributing to the local emergence of Abstract Expressionism during the 1940s and 50s, shifted the terms of their spectacularly sensuous brushwork to recognizable imagery. Bill Berkson writes that if "David Park was the classicist of the founding triad of the Bay Area Figurative painters, and Richard Diebenkorn the modernist,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520230426
• ISBN13: 9780520230422
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.6" x 11.0"