Books by Eleanor Heartney
Mel Chin: Rematch
by Andrei Codrescu, Lisa A. Crossman, Eleanor Heartney, Patricia Covo Johnson, Herb Tam, Miranda Lash, Patricia C. Phillips
Eschewing a trademark style, the common thread through Mel Chin’s practice is his conceptual rigor, thoughtful historicism and concern for social justice. His land-based works such as "Revival Field" from the early 1990s and "Operation Paydirt" (2008–ongoing) garnered significant international press for presenting the science of soil remediation as an art form. Challenging the traditional concept of a retrospective as a linear presentation of a single individual’s work over time, the publication celebrates the artist’s practice of constant evolution, re-examination, and collaboration. It includes an extensive illustrated chronology and an essay by the poet Andrei Codrescu, and is published on the occasion of a major Mel Chin exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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Eric Fischl: Late America
by Eleanor Nairne, Eleanor Heartney, Heather Sealy Lineberry, Dr. Kathryn Brown, Arcmanoro Niles
Major new catalogue on one of the leading figurative painters working in the USA today.
Contemporary artist Eric Fischl has been unwavering in his commitment to painting the human figure throughout his long career, revealing the body’s central role in determining social and individual experience. As the first major book on the artist in over a decade, this beautifully illustrated publication accompanies a new exhibition in Phoenix, Arizona and includes early, well-known paintings and works on paper focused on the inhabitants of middle-class American suburbs with their social taboos, family secrets, toxic masculinity and unacknowledged privileges.
Also featured are the recent poetically and revealingly titled series of paintings Late America, Presence of an Absence, and Complications of an Already Unfulfilled Life. These works were created in the contexts of the pandemic, political activism and division.
Featuring new and unpublished work, this book will be essential for Fischl’s many loyal fans, and all those interested in modern and contemporary figurative painting.
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