Jim Isermann: Works 1980-2020 Isermann Jim
From functional installations to discrete objects, Jim Isermann has chronicled the conflation of postwar industrial design and fine art through popular cultureA comprehensive monograph spanning the…
Specifikacia Jim Isermann: Works 1980-2020 Isermann Jim
From functional installations to discrete objects, Jim Isermann has chronicled the conflation of postwar industrial design and fine art through popular cultureA comprehensive monograph spanning the 40-year career of Palm Springs-based artist Jim Isermann (born 1955), this title shows the artist's first 20 years of extensive, chronological research of postwar art and design filtered through popular culture and consumerism, followed by 20 years of site-specific public projects and a studio practice of labor-intensive painting, sculpture and the occasional product design project.In 1980, there were no guidebooks to California design or what we now call Midcentury Modern. Isermann constructed his own timeline, object by object, from thrift stores, flea markets and swap meets, making bodies of work that included latch hook rugs paired with painting, stained