Contemporary artist Philip Taaffe, specializing in post-modern decorative abstraction, was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1955. He lives and works in New York City. His paintings are in the... Read full biography
Contemporary artist Philip Taaffe, specializing in post-modern decorative abstraction, was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1955. He lives and works in New York City. His paintings are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art. Rene Ricard writes the... Read full biography
Contemporary artist Philip Taaffe, specializing in post-modern decorative abstraction, was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1955. He lives and works in New York City. His paintings are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art. Rene Ricard writes the following paragraphs about Philip Taaffe, placing Taaffe's work in the context of Pompeiian painting: "Pliny the Elder's Historia Naturalis is the principal source for what we know about Greek and Roman art.... Read full biography
Contemporary artist Philip Taaffe, specializing in post-modern decorative abstraction, was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1955. He lives and works in New York City. His paintings are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art. Rene Ricard writes the following paragraphs about Philip Taaffe, placing Taaffe's work in the context of Pompeiian painting: "Pliny the Elder's Historia Naturalis is the principal source for what we know about Greek and Roman art. I'd been reading Pliny this winter. Coincidentally, Philip Taaffe also read Pliny's "Natural History" this year, and hearing about my research wanted me to see his new paintings that derive considerable inspiration from the book. What caught my... Read full biography
Contemporary artist Philip Taaffe, specializing in post-modern decorative abstraction, was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1955. He lives and works in New York City. His paintings are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art. Rene Ricard writes the following paragraphs about Philip Taaffe, placing Taaffe's work in the context of Pompeiian painting: "Pliny the Elder's Historia Naturalis is the principal source for what we know about Greek and Roman art. I'd been reading Pliny this winter. Coincidentally, Philip Taaffe also read Pliny's "Natural History" this year, and hearing about my research wanted me to see his new paintings that derive considerable inspiration from the book. What caught my attention about Philip's paintings, however, was not their ostensible subject matter-the starfish, dragonflies and fantastic birds but more to... Read full biography
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About Philip Taaffe: Books
Books & Publications (21)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Art Prophets: The Artists, Dealers, and Tastemakers Who Shook the Art World
2011
Polsky, Richard
262 pages
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
East Village USA (New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York)
2004
Cameron, Dan
160 pages
Art at the Turn of the Millennium
1999
Larsen, Lars et all
561 pages (color)
Artists at Work Inside the Studios of Today's Most Celebrated Artists
1999
Seidner, David
0 pages
Birth of the Cool From Georgia O'Keeffe to Christopher Wool (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Curiger, Brice
144 pages (color)
Visual Arts in the 20th Century
1997
Lucie-Smith, Edward
400 pages (color)
The Dakis Joannou Collection
1996
Deitch, Jeffrey
302 pages (color)
True Colors The Real Life of the Art World
1996
Haden-Guest, Anthony
344 pages (color)
Art of the Postmodern Era From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s
1996
Sandler, Irving
636 pages (color)
Art Today
1995
Lucie-Smith, Edward
512 pages (color)
Culture or Trash? A Provocative View of Contemporary Painting (etc)
1993
Gardner, James
227 pages
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
Artists and Writers
1990
Schwartz, Sanford
322 pages
NY Art Now The Saatchi Collection
1988
Cameron, Dan
250 pages (color)
The Binational American Art of the Late 80s (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Fairbrother, Trevor (others)
226 pages (color)
Postminimalism into Maximalism American Art 1966-1986