Jared French's Myths

By Nancy Grimes

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566403227
• ISBN13: 9781566403221
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Pomegranate
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 0.5" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

A fine introduction to the artist's work

This a very slim but large, almost square format publication, with a brief well illustrated introduction covering about fourteen pages, discusses the artist and his background, his work and progression. The remainder of the book is devoted to the colour plates followed by a chronology and exhibition record. There is no bibliography. The colour plates which take up the major portion of the book amount to 36 in total (this in addition to the illustrations in the introduction). They are full page, or rather they occupy a page each if they do not exactly fill the page, with the exception of one double page spread, and another page containing three related pictures. They appear on the right hand page and are tastefully presented with the facing page entirely in a muted grey containing the title and very brief facts neatly centred. The quality of the images is good, they do appear a little muted, but not having had the privilege of seeing them in the flesh (none appears to be on view in the UK) that may well be an accurate representation. What is without question is the quality of the French's work, making this a very desirable volume.

An attractive addition to personal art library

Super illustrations of inticing work. I learned of Jared French via my interest in French's contemporaries and friends, Paul Cadmus and George Platt Lynes. I enjoyed seeing vintage photographs by Jared French, his wife Margaret French, and his friend/lover Paul Cadmus (PAJAMA) at SF Art Fair. Fortunate to view his Richmond Post Office WPA mural now restored & installed at the Federal Courthouse in Richmond Virginia this year (along with the superior Paul Cadmus mural). This book serves as a solid introduction to his work. I intend on purchasing another copy for a friend.