Cecily Brown

Themes and Variations

Anna Katherine Brodbeck, Simonetta Fraquelli, Aruna D'Souza

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Yale University Press
24 September 2024

Art & design styles: from c 1960; Individual artists, art monographs

Surveying three decades of the British painter Cecily Brown's career, with its vibrant mixture of gestural expression, canonical and pop references, and subversive themes

This stunning volume surveys the pioneering career of Cecily Brown (b. 1969), one of the most celebrated artists working in painting today. In particular, it explores her process through paintings and drawings that demonstrate both her radical contemporaneity and her keen reassessment of historical precedents such as old master paintings and abstract expressionism, which have been consistent hallmarks of her art. The book's probing essays look at her practice, investigate the main themes that recur in Brown's work, and consider her art from a feminist perspective. Brown reclaimed the heroic gestural expression often affiliated with the male artists of the abstract expressionist generation—largely out of favor with her peers—and in this mode she creates lush, dynamic paintings that often contain erotic content appropriated from art historical or pop culture sources. Moving between figuration and abstraction, Brown subverts gendered tropes in work that often deals with the power imbalances inherent in voyeurism and sexual violence.

Distributed for the Barnes Foundation

Exhibition Schedule:

Dallas Museum of Art

(September 29, 2024–February 9, 2025)

Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

(March 9–May 25, 2025)

Contributions by: Aruna D'Souza
Edited by: Anna Katherine Brodbeck, Simonetta Fraquelli
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 292mm,
ISBN: 9780300278866
ISBN 10: 0300278861
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 24 September 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anna Katherine Brodbeck is the Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at Dallas Museum of Art. Simonetta Fraquelli is an art historian and consultant curator for the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia. Aruna D’Souza is a writer and art critic who deals with issues in art, museums, intersectional feminisms, and other forms of politics.