Storr, Robert — Exile on main st.

Bonnefantenmuseum, 2009 Paperback. 259 pages. Text in English. As new (belly band unfortunately damaged). Catalogue of the exhibition 'Exile on Main St.' at the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht. For this exhibition director Alexander van Grevenstein selected more than two hundred works by nine 20th-century American artists: Richard Artschwager, William Copley, Steve Gianakos, Alfred Jensen, Peter Saul, John Tweddle, John Wesley, H.C. Westermann and Joe Zucker. What they have in common is that they never joined popular art movements but always followed their own solitary course. They work figuratively, on paper or canvas, and a few also make sculptures. Humour and exaggeration, inspired by cartoons and comics, often play a role. The (English-language) catalogue reproduces all exhibited works in colour, with dimensions, materials and collection listed at the back, together with the artists' CVs. Grevenstein and the artist, critic and curator Robert Storr each wrote an introductory essay aimed at the advanced art lover.