Author: Delfiner, Judith and Jay DeFeo
Title: Jay Defeo: Etudes Xerographiques
Description: Bruxelles, Editions La Part de L'Oeil, 2023. Paperback. White and beige wraps with illustration and b&w lettering; 421 pp.; richly illustrated, chiefly in color. Text in French. "Jay DeFeo is a Californian artist whose name remains linked to the Beat Generation movement today. A leading personality within the community of artists associated with it, DeFeo owes her recognition to the creation of a unique composition to which she dedicated eight years of her life: The Rose (1958-1966). Upstream and downstream, the artist nevertheless developed a rich work, built on experimentation with materials, which resists any simplistic categorization. Judith Delfiner's work, Jay DeFeo Xerographic Studies, focuses on an experimental and unpublished corpus of the artist's production, his xerographies, a few hundred compositions produced in secret, from 1975 to his death in 1989. Deployed in seven chapters structured around a corpus of 257 illustrations, the work highlights the creative process that underlies DeFeo's work. Developed in an artisanal manner and methodically archived, these images appear in fact like DeFeo's factory, a form of unthought of his creation where the archive and the artistic material intertwine. Through the careful exploration of this corpus resulting from the diversion for artistic purposes of the office tool par excellence that is the photocopier, this essay offers a first theorization of the xerographic medium of which it draws up the archeology, through the study of the production of contemporary women artists who were pioneers in the field." -- Publisher's Website. VG (Light edgewear to wraps; textblock eges are lightly smudged at the corners; interior is clean; binding is solid.) .

Keywords: American Artists, Jay Defeo ; Defeo, Jay ; ;


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