Brice Marden: Phaidon Focus [Hardcover]

American artistBrice Marden(b. 1938) has had a profound impact on painting today. During his career there has been a sea change in art movements, yet Marden has unwaveringly adhered to modernist principles of abstraction.

From his early monochromatic paintings of the 1960s and 1970s  sculpturally layered using oil paint and light-absorbing beeswax to explore subjectively the connections of colour to person, mood or idea  to themes inspired by Asian art and culture, composed of vivid and calligraphic loops and webs, Marden's deeply personal work incorporates multiple art historical and cultural inspirations.

Eileen Costello has studied Mardens work closely over the past decade through numerous studio visits and discussions with the artist. She has contributed towards the production of a number of books and exhibition catalogues on the artist, and in 2003 initiated the catalogue raisonn? of Mardens drawings and paintings. A specialist in post-war American and European art, she is also the Project Director forThe Catalogue Raisonn? of the Drawings of Jasper Johns, at The Menil Foundation, Houston.On thePhaidon Focusseries

Excellent introductions to modern masters series. The Observer Magazine

Satisfyingly hardback yet not too hefty. Tastefully simple, encased in a plastic cover to protect them from all those crayons and paints that you're sure to whip out in a frenzy of inspiration after browsing these pages. Each contains a trove of images of artwork and educational focus chapters on themes and techniques. It's Nice That

Concise yet spirited introduction... Plenty of colour plates make it brilliantly useful as a reference tool. The Sunday Telegraph

Eschewing the heavyweight doorstop format of many art books, these beautiful and compact Phaidon Focus artist monographs are small and slick, and refreshingly affordable... Designed by Julia Hasting, the Zurich-based design directorl34