Deborah Rosenthal and Jed Perl
ABOUT BORROMINI
2023
Hardbound, 80 pages, 18 color images
13 x 13 inches
Printed in an edition of 500
Images: Deborah Rosenthal
Text: Jed Perl
Limited edition of 20 includes an original linocut by Deborah Rosenthal and a copy of the book signed by Rosenthal and Perl.
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About Borromini unites two highly personal responses to the buildings of Francesco Borromini, the seventeenth-century Roman architect whose works are among the essential expressions of the Baroque imagination. During a stay some years ago at the American Academy in Rome, Deborah Rosenthal and Jed Perl were fascinated by this enigmatic architect and his paradoxical vision, by turns opulent, extravagant, saturnine, and austere. “I began a series of intaglio and linocut prints,” Rosenthal explains, “and these found a response in Jed’s texts – some of which are prose poems.” About Borromini is a dialogue between an artist and a writer – and a contemporary salute to an architect who died 350 years ago.
Deborah Rosenthal is a painter who lives and works in New York City, where she has had numerous solo exhibitions since 1984 at the Bowery Gallery. Her paintings, prints, and drawings have been shown widely in solo and group shows, and discussed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Arts, Art in America, Art and Antiques, and Modern Painters, among others. For her writing on art in publications including The New Criterion, Modern Painters, and Artforum, she received an NEA Critic’s Grant. Having taught in many programs including the Queens College (CUNY) MFA, she is Professor Emerita of Fine Arts at Rider University, where she taught for 25 years.
Jed Perl is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. Among his many books are Paris Without End, New Art City, Magicians and Charlatans, Antoine’s Alphabet, Authority and Freedom, and a two-volume biography of Alexander Calder. He was the art critic for The New Republic for twenty years, a contributing editor to Vogue for a decade, and is the recipient of awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy in Rome, and the Leon Levy Biography Center at the City University of New York.
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