{"product_id":"mary-heilmann-save-the-last-dance-for-me-9781846380310","title":"Mary Heilmann: Save the Last Dance for Me","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn illustrated study of Mary Heilmann's seductive 1979 abstract painting in hot pink and black, \u003ci\u003eSave the Last Dance for Me\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"You want beauty? I'll give you beauty!\"--Mary Heilmann\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Heilmann is one of the most important abstract painters of her generation. Her distinctively fluid, humorous, and bright canvases combine the modes of Abstract Expressionism with a vibrant Pop sensibility. Heilmannn's 1979 painting in hot pink and black, evocatively titled \u003ci\u003eSave the Last Dance for Me\u003c\/i\u003e, marked a shift in the artist's perspective. Heilmann describes it: \"Now the work came from a different place. Instead of working out of modernist non-image formalism, I began to see that the choices in the work depended more on content for their meaning.\" This beautifully illustrated study of \u003ci\u003eSave the Last Dance for Me\u003c\/i\u003e explores the development of Heilmann's work, and the way it continues to engage us--psychologically, sensually, and socially.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe three bright pink rectangles in Heilmann's painting seem to dance off the edge of the canvas, through a black field that seems dark as a nightclub after midnight--or perhaps the three are actually one pink rectangle, seen in a blissfully formal time lapse, moving across the dance floor\/canvas. These definitively modernist geometric forms coexist with a sense of movement in real time. For many, abstraction may have been dancing its last dance in 1979, but Heilmann's bright pink rectangles boogie on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Afterall Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/23\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781846380310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.22h x 5.86w x 0.38d","brand":"Terry R. Myers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52604419440821,"sku":"9781846380310","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/mary-heilmann-save-the-last-dance-for-me-9781846380310","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}