
ISBN 1-889097-06-3
48pp, Hardcover,
18 color plates,
Oversized 8.5 x 11"
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18 paintings based on the introduction to The Songs of Experience by Willian Blake; with an introduction and interview by William Corbett and a critical essay by Donald Kuspit.
Amenoff's latest work takes its overall title from the poet William Blake. These are large pictures in both size and scope. Always rooted to the landscape, Amenoff has here brought the sky down to earth and ground starlight into pigment. These visionary paintings echo the work of Charles Burchfield and Martin Johnson Heade, but their lavish use of paint and their exuberance ("Exuberance is Beauty," wrote Blake) are all Amenoff. In their essays Kuspit and Corbett, the former writing from a critical distance and the latter from a long association with the paintings and painter, explore Amenoff's achievement. Accompanying their texts are excerpts from an interview with the painter.

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