Jay DeFeo’s Dialectics of Painting

This technical-art historical study sets out to clarify central questions about the relationship of US-American artist Jay DeFeo (1929–89) to materiality, in particular the role media choices played in the development of her visual vocabulary. To that end, the essay traces distinct stages of DeFeo’s...

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Published inGetty research journal Vol. 18; no. 18; pp. 107 - 132
Main Authors Gottschaller, Pia, Mazurek, Joy
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chicago J. Paul Getty Trust 01.08.2023
Getty Publications
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press
Subjects
Art history
DeFeo, Jay (1929-1989)
Documentation
Materiality
Painters
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Summary:This technical-art historical study sets out to clarify central questions about the relationship of US-American artist Jay DeFeo (1929–89) to materiality, in particular the role media choices played in the development of her visual vocabulary. To that end, the essay traces distinct stages of DeFeo’s experimentation and maturation through a wide array of documents, many of which have, to date, gone unpublished: color charts, photographs of works in progress and studio contents, interviews, lectures, letters, and journals. We discuss the insights yielded by these archival sources alongside results of scientific analysis of fifty-eight samples from paintings representative of her entire oeuvre.
ISSN:1944-8740
2329-1249
DOI:10.1086/726887