Jim Shaw with equal weight given to

with equal weight given to architectural form and engaging

This book presents a comprehensive view of the work of American painter Philip Taaffe (b

It also shares uncomfortable truths about the sources of some objects from the age of empires and shows how the meanings of things can change through the transformation of private property into public museum collections

Visits to Japan and Germany informed his Prairie House period

this book draws attention to the idea of lyrical naturalism as a conceptual bridge that unites the power of poetry with the allurement of the natural world

Jim Shaw with equal weight given toBlending the reflected cultural climate of his adopted home, Los Angeles, with the multi layered world of American popular culture, Jim Shaw (b. 1952) creates rich, dream like worlds within distinct bodies of work. Addressing, for the first time, how the artist's oeuvre inter relates, this substantial monograph argues that the artist's seemingly disparate series actually function together to present a lucid and insightful portrait of America today.