Ralston Crawford: Painting and Visual Experience

Ralston Crawford: Painting and Visual ExperienceEdited by William C. Agee Ralston Crawford has been most closely identified with Precisionism. His Paintings of the thirties rank among the best produced by any of the Precisionists. Yet his Precisionist painting occupied him for less than ten years. By 1944 his art had undergone a profound shift and expansion of style and range of feeling, and his work in painting, lithography, drawing, watercolor, etching, photography, motion pictures and sound

and malleable realities

Also included is a special sketchbook of drawings selected by the artist

we will bring about our own extinction

Edith Sitwell

These source images were then reproduced using thermal fax machines

80 four-color plates

I woke up to a loud noise

without any embarrassment on either side

The hauntingly poetic images in Compound Fracture provide a new context for viewing the human form in relation to other bodies

In the summer of 1962

Subjects include Marcel Duchamp

and the feeling of a good horse underneath you as you work together to keep a herd moving