Cecily Brown

by Dore Ashton

Cecily Brown creates lush, visceral canvases based on a combination of figuration and abstraction. Her technical proficiency has earned her comparisons to Lucian Freud, Willem de Kooning, and Francis Bacon, yet it is her unique ability to convey the pleasurable and fleeting aspects of sensation that drive her work.Cecily Brown rapidly rose to success in the late 1990's, and was credited with having contributed to the resurgence of painting at the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847830926
• ISBN13: 9780847830923
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 4.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 11.0" x 11.3"