{"product_id":"9781846380310","title":"Mary Heilmann: Save the Last Dance for Me","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eMyers, Terry R.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eAfterall Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e3\/23\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn illustrated study of Mary Heilmann's seductive 1979 abstract painting in hot pink and black, \u003ci\u003eSave the Last Dance for Me\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"You want beauty? I'll give you beauty!\"—Mary Heilmann\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Heilmann is one of the most important abstract painters of her generation. Her distinctively fluid, humorous, and bright canvases combine the modes of Abstract Expressionism with a vibrant Pop sensibility. Heilmannn's 1979 painting in hot pink and black, evocatively titled \u003ci\u003eSave the Last Dance for Me\u003c\/i\u003e, marked a shift in the artist's perspective. Heilmann describes it: \"Now the work came from a different place. Instead of working out of modernist non-image formalism, I began to see that the choices in the work depended more on content for their meaning.\" This beautifully illustrated study of \u003ci\u003eSave the Last Dance for Me\u003c\/i\u003e explores the development of Heilmann's work, and the way it continues to engage us—psychologically, sensually, and socially.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe three bright pink rectangles in Heilmann's painting seem to dance off the edge of the canvas, through a black field that seems dark as a nightclub after midnight—or perhaps the three are actually one pink rectangle, seen in a blissfully formal time lapse, moving across the dance floor\/canvas. These definitively modernist geometric forms coexist with a sense of movement in real time. For many, abstraction may have been dancing its last dance in 1979, but Heilmann's bright pink rectangles boogie on.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Afterall Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43350424223999,"sku":"9781846380310","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9781846380310_s600x595.jpg?v=1782147707","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9781846380310","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}