Author: Blaine, Nell ; Wayne Koestenbaum
Title: A Glowing Order : Paintings and Watercolors
Description: New York, NY, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 2012. Softcover. Color illustrated glued wraps. Unnumbered pages. Chiefly color illustrations. "Nell Blaine's paintings, which depict flowers, vases, fruit, boats, tables, windows, clouds, sunsets, trees, and other modest subjects, do not require, despite twenty-first century riptides of neo-Conceptualism, my spirited defense; her work can survive without being accused, by party-line upholders, of stopping progress. Her paintings, like the objects they depict, are rich with ideas; light and color, as rendered by Blaine, suggest philosophic matters it would take major muscle to unpack. Alizarin crimson, for example, is a complicated affair; Blaine, after Wittgenstein, encourages us to question the ordinary language we use to describe color , a lexicon eerie in its often unquestioned trust that what is said reflects what is seen." - Wayne Koestenbaum. VG, exlib with stickers on spine, inside rear cover, and on rear cover, ownership stamps on text block and inside covers .

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