{"product_id":"mary-heilmann-isbn-9781846380310","title":"Mary Heilmann","description":"\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\u003eTerry R. Myers is a Chicago— and Los Angeles-based writer, educator, and independent curator. A regular contributor since 1988 to numerous international journals, including ArtReview, The Brooklyn Rail, Parkett, and Modern Painters, he is the author of Mary Heilmann:Save the Last Dance for Me (Afterall Books, 2007). He is Associate Professor of Paintingand Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.","brand":"Afterall Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302261903589,"sku":"NP9781846380310","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781846380310.jpg?v=1767732358","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/mary-heilmann-isbn-9781846380310","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}