John Register

by Barnaby Conrad III

Book Overview

Nearly eighty color reproductions of paintings by artist John Register. Anecdotes and essay by Barnaby Conrad III This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877016704
• ISBN13: 9780877016700
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great discovery

Great artist, Great Book. If you love Hopper, he may have competition if you're just discovering Register.

Compelling and Beautiful

Some years ago, the San Jose Museum of Art (San Jose, California) hosted a showing of Register's work, and this book was featured. How I wish I had bought the book then, as it so accurately captures the very essence of these moving and memorable paintings. Conrad has created his own kind of masterpiece, worth owning because of its authenticity and beauty.

One I will go back to, often.

This book will not just become another piece of bookshelf design. The reproductions are very good (much better in this hardcover version than in the soft cover...particularly in terms of color accuracy)As mentioned before, the writing is very engaging, well integrated with the images, totally relevant and easily referenced to actual plates. Strength of visual presentation is never compromised for economy of publication. Facts are developed in somewhat of a story form rather than that of a dry academic or bored docent offering. I especially enjoyed commentary on the influence and interplay Register experienced with writers John Fante, Charles Bukowski and Black Sparrow publisher John Martin.

Powerful, inspiring and superbly written.

Barnaby Conrad is a truly gifted writer and intellectual. His new book on the artist John Register is a wonderful tribute to an important american contempory artist.

Register is the most important artist since Hopper.

Barnaby Conrad III is a high quality, well-educated author that is sensitive and brilliant in his ability to articulte and capture the essence of John Register in his suberb new book. This book is an important chronicle of a man who will become one of the important and accomplished artists of the twentieth century.