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Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - Over the last thirty years Robert Moskowitz has emerged as one of the most important painters on the American scene. His collages, paintings and drawings form a significant link between the Abstract Expressionism of the New York School and the 'New Image Abstraction' painters of the mid-1970s. Since the 1960s, Moskowitz has pursued a strongly reductive style, seeking to infuse recognizable imagery with emotive content. At first it was possible to draw parallels between his paintings and those of Johns, Rauschenberg and Dine, with whom he sometimes exhibited, but more recently he has developed a personal style that is entirely his own. In the words of Michael Kimmelman of the New York Times, he 'works and reworks a narrow repertory of images, inventing through mysterious scenes of icebergs, howling dogs, crosses and skyscrapers, a world in which distinctions blur between past and present, solid and ephemeral. Strange, affecting images, they describe a narrow path separating reality from the imagination. Based on a major retrospective exhibition, this is the first book to survey the whole range of Moskowitz's career to date, reproducing over sixty of his works in colour. Ned Rifkin, Chief Curator for Exhibitions at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., provides a full biographical and critical commentary, and the book also contains an illuminating interview with the artist by Linda Shearer, Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. ISBN 0500091994