George Tooker
by: Cozzolino, Robert; Marshall N. Price & M. Melissa Wolfe

Hardcover. Merrell, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers with silver lettering. 191 pages, color plates. The first representative overview of Tooker's work for thirty years, provides a much-deserved and comprehensive examination of the scope of his art. In essays comprising new research and offering fresh insights, it explores his passion for composition, his spirituality and his exploration of identity. Featuring superb reproductions of more than eighty of the artist's timeless images, the book also enables readers to see the unexpected ways in which Tooker's work echoes what has been considered avant-garde in American art and to appreciate the depth of his resonant, prescient imagery. A major new study of one of America's most influential modern painters. Clean copy.