Carmen Cicero: Drawings and Watercolors av David Ebony

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<p><strong>The first book devoted to the enigmatic and thought-provoking drawings and watercolours of Carmen Cicero ¿ in a handsome oversize format.</strong></p><p>Carmen Cicero (b. 1926) is now in the midst of his seventh decade at the cutting edge of contemporary art. His works of the 1950s ¿ collected by the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Whitney, and other major museums ¿ combined the gestures of Abstract Expressionism with the complex emergent forms of Surrealist automatism. In the 1960s, Cicero was one of the first members of the American avant-garde to return to figuration, pursuing, through the 1960s and 1970s, a style he called ¿figurative expressionism.¿ This evolved into his more recent ¿visionary¿ mode, in which he depicts, with a startling clarity, mysterious scenes animated by multiple contradictory feelings ¿ unfulfilled desires, jealousy, despair, and isolation ¿ as well as a generous dose of humour. Throughout his entire artistic evolution, drawing and water