Cecily Brown
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Death and the Maid
Ian Alteveer; With a contribution by Adam Eaker
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Format: HardcoverPrice: $45.00
An intimate survey of Cecily Brown’s paintings, drawings, and prints, providing a meditation on the intertwined themes of still life, memento mori, and vanitas in her work
This survey of the acclaimed British painter Cecily Brown (b. 1969) reexamines the work of an artist whose influential output references both modern heavyweights, such as Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, and Joan Mitchell, and Old Masters, such as Goya, Hogarth, Manet, and Rubens. The book’s 21 paintings and 26 works on paper, including drawings, watercolors, sketchbooks, and monotypes, span the three decades of Brown’s career to date, including recently completed and never-before-published works. Brown transfixes viewers with sumptuous color, bravura brushwork, and complex narratives that relate to some of European painting’s grandest and most time-honored themes, including meditations on mortality through the use of vanitas and still-life motifs. A conversation with the artist provides insight into her process and sources, while an insightful essay examines how Brown’s paintings and drawings perform multiple functions, at once representational and abstract, moralizing and sensuous, referential and innovative. A fascinating review of a contemporary artist at the height of her powers, Cecily Brown:Death and the Maid situates Brown in the lineage of the great artists of the last five hundred years.
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
Exhibition Schedule:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
(April 3–September 24, 2023)
Ian Alteveer is the Aaron I. Fleischman Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Cecily Brown is an artist based in New York. Adam Eaker is associate curator in the Department of European Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
(April 3–September 24, 2023)
Publication Date: April 25, 2023
Publishing Partner: Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
80 color illus.
