Bad Boy: My Life On And Off The Canvas
by Michael Stone /
2013 / English / EPUB
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Bad Boy, renowned American artist Eric Fischl has written
a penetrating, often searing exploration of his coming of age as an
artist, and his search for a fresh narrative style in the highly
charged and competitive New York art world in the 1970s and 1980s.
With such notorious and controversial paintings as Bad Boy and
Sleepwalker, Fischl joined the front ranks of America artists, in a
high-octane downtown art scene that included Andy Warhol, David
Salle, Julian Schnabel, and others. It was a world of fashion,
fame, cocaine and alcohol that for a time threatened to undermine
all that Fischl had achieved.
, renowned American artist Eric Fischl has written
a penetrating, often searing exploration of his coming of age as an
artist, and his search for a fresh narrative style in the highly
charged and competitive New York art world in the 1970s and 1980s.
With such notorious and controversial paintings as Bad Boy and
Sleepwalker, Fischl joined the front ranks of America artists, in a
high-octane downtown art scene that included Andy Warhol, David
Salle, Julian Schnabel, and others. It was a world of fashion,
fame, cocaine and alcohol that for a time threatened to undermine
all that Fischl had achieved.
In an extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Fischl discusses
the impact of his dysfunctional family on his art—his mother, an
imaginative and tragic woman, was an alcoholic who ultimately took
her own life. Following his years as a student at Cal Arts and
teaching in Nova Scotia, he describes his early years in New York
with the artist April Gornik, just as Wall Street money begins to
encroach on the old gallery system and change the economics of the
art world. Fischl rebelled against the conceptual and minimalist
art that was in fashion at the time to paint compelling portraits
of everyday people that captured the unspoken tensions in their
lives. Still in his thirties, Eric became the subject of a major
Vanity Fair interview, his canvases sold for as much as a million
dollars, and The Whitney Museum mounted a major retrospective of
his paintings.
In an extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Fischl discusses
the impact of his dysfunctional family on his art—his mother, an
imaginative and tragic woman, was an alcoholic who ultimately took
her own life. Following his years as a student at Cal Arts and
teaching in Nova Scotia, he describes his early years in New York
with the artist April Gornik, just as Wall Street money begins to
encroach on the old gallery system and change the economics of the
art world. Fischl rebelled against the conceptual and minimalist
art that was in fashion at the time to paint compelling portraits
of everyday people that captured the unspoken tensions in their
lives. Still in his thirties, Eric became the subject of a major
Vanity Fair interview, his canvases sold for as much as a million
dollars, and The Whitney Museum mounted a major retrospective of
his paintings.Bad Boy
Bad Boy follows Fischl’s maturation both as an artist and
sculptor, and his inevitable fall from grace as a new generation of
artists takes center stage, and he is forced to grapple with his
legacy and place among museums and collectors. Beautifully written,
and as courageously revealing as his most provocative paintings,
follows Fischl’s maturation both as an artist and
sculptor, and his inevitable fall from grace as a new generation of
artists takes center stage, and he is forced to grapple with his
legacy and place among museums and collectors. Beautifully written,
and as courageously revealing as his most provocative paintings,Bad Boy
Bad Boy takes the reader on a roller coaster ride through
the passion and politics of the art world as it has rarely been
seen before.
takes the reader on a roller coaster ride through
the passion and politics of the art world as it has rarely been
seen before.