Author: Campbell, Andrianna and Tetsuya Oshima
Title: Norman Lewis: Looking East
Description: New York, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, 2018. Hardcover. Oblong white boards w/ gilt mounted illustration & black printing. 120 pgs w/ 67 color illustrations. Norman Lewis: Looking East explores for the first time the profound impact of Asian thought, philosophy, literature and art on the life-long work of abstract expressionist Norman Lewis (1909-1979). Produced on the occasion of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery's fifth solo exhibition for the artist, the publication includes color reproductions of 35 paintings and works on paper spanning 1948 to 1974, and pages from never-before-viewed artist sketchbooks from the Norman Lewis Archive. Norman Lewis: Looking East features new scholarship by Andrianna Campbell and Tetsuya Oshima. In his essay, Oshima traces how Lewis came to direct a serious eye to Asian art, deepening his commitment to it in the mid-1940s as he worked to create a universal pictorial art on his own terms. Art historian Campbell takes us back to post-World War II New York, when artists and scholars gravitated toward the idea of a cohesive world, in the context of which Lewis developed a new and celebratory visual language deeply informed by East/West aesthetic and cultural exchange.-- Michael Rosenfeld Gallery. VG (Book appears unread.) .

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