Gideon Rubin

by Martin Herbert, Aya Lurie, and Sarah Suzuki

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Coinciding with a touring exhibition of paintings and works on paper, this book is the first monograph on the acclaimed Israeli painter Gideon Rubin. After witnessing the events of 9/11 in New York first hand, Rubin turned his back on his realist way of working and embarked on a method that has become his signature style. Using found photographs, magazines and newspapers, mainly from the mid-twentieth century, as his primary source material, he paints portraits – faceless portraits. These small, unnerving paintings of featureless figures, full of life but empty of expression, are charming and chilling in equal measure,...Read more
  • ISBN13 9781908970206
  • Publish Date 6 July 2015
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 17 May 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Art / Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 208
  • Language English