Peter Blume: Nature and Metamorphosis

loved it, have an earlier book on Blume LDJ I attended the Exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum, loved it, have an earlier book on Blume, saw this catalogue at the exhibit, andimmediately decided to buy it. I waited till I was able to order it at Amazon, less expensive and the same exact book.Love it! It is probabl. Five Stars Amazon Customer Beautiful book with great pics.

. Robert Cozzolino is Senior Curator and Curator of Modern Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

The book is well illustrated throughout. Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2015"This handsome book accompanies the 2015 retrospective exhibition of the artist's work at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art, the first such exhibit since 1976. The exhibition and this publication aim to make better known an American artist who was more popular in the 1930s and 1940s. Essential."—Choice. In addition to insightful essays by Cozzolino, who knew Blume as a family friend, the book includes chapters by Samantha Baskind, Sergio Cortesini, Robert Cowley, David McCarthy, and Sarah Vure

The first retrospective of this influential artist in several decades, Peter Blume: Nature and Metamorphosis brings the artist's significance within the history of American art into sharp focus.Contributors: Samantha Baskind, Sergio Cortesini, Robert Cowley, Robert Cozzolino, David McCarthy, Sarah Vure.. Showcasing over a hundred paintings and drawings, as well as sketches, sculpture, and ephemera from all periods of his six-decade career, Peter Blume: Nature and Metamorphosis provides unprecedented insight into the artist's process, his relationship to Surrealism, and his profound visions of twentieth-century social and spiritual upheaval.This comprehensive volume draws on a selection of previously unpublished interviews with Blume and selected examples of the artist's writings, and reflects previously unknown aspects of Blume's work, including a poster design made during World War II, a major painting not seen in public since 1961, and extensive photographs and drawings from his archives. Essays by Samantha Baskind, Sergio