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ABANDONED BOOKS
ABANDONED BOOKS
Two-Dimensional Wall Art > Paintings (Oil)
36 x 48 x 1.5
$18,000.00
Artwork #
35
Artist's Statement
ABANDONED BOOKS
When is a pile of books more than a pile of books?
There are possibly several points of reference -- among them a post-literate culture in which reading has been largely supplanted by digital distractions in the form of video games, the IPhone, and FaceBook.
Inescapable too, is the allusion to censorship, and the suppression of learning and knowledge in a society moving increasingly into intellectual myopia and self-delusion.
Visually, the painting refers to the Romantic allegorical landscapes of Caspar David Friederich - for I am primarily a painter in the landscape tradition, whether representational or abstract.
