Writing a Chrysanthemum The Drawings of Rick Barton

""Rick Barton should have been a San Francisco legend," wrote author and artist Etel Adnan in a 1998 essay. Barton (American, 1928-1992) was born and raised in New York and settled in the Bay Area in the 1950s. Working primarily in pen or brush and ink, in a kaleidoscopic linear style, Barton ceaselessly recorded the world around him. His intricate sheets capture the intimate interiors and social spaces, lovers and friends, and architectural and botanical subjects that fascinated him. Bringing together more than sixty drawings, two accordion-folded sketchbooks, and printed books and portfolios, this catalogue presents the work of a significant and, until now, unheralded figure of the Beat era. Complementing the images are a deeply researched essay by Rachel Federman, curator of the accompanying exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, and an excerpt of Adnan's essay, the first and previously the only published account of Barton"--.

ISBN:	9781636810386
Publisher:	The Morgan Library & Museum
Imprint:	Distributed Art Publishers
Published date:	22 Jul 2022
DEWEY:	741.973
DEWEY edition:	23/eng/20211105
Language:	English
Sales rank:	9525
Number of pages:	cm
Weight:	950g
Height:	222mm
Width:	286mm
Spine width:	19mm

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