RECOMMENDED ART READS
Picasso and the Invention of Cubism by Pepe Karmel
Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation by W. J. T. Mitchell
Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology by W. J. T. Mitchell
In Defiance of Painting: Cubism, Futurism, and the Invention of Collage by Christine Poggi
The Picasso Papers by Rosalind E. Krauss
Emulation: David, Drouais, and Girodet in the Art of Revolutionary France by Thomas Crow
Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction by John Gage
Color and Meaning: Art, Science, and Symbolism by John Gage
Cubism and Its Enemies by Christopher Green
Duchamp in Context: Science and Technology in the "Large Glass" and Related Works by Linda Dalrymple Henderson
Although Pasutti's work is representational, nothing is how we may see it in the real world. Series upon series of scenes unravel and seemingly disappear in fractured rooms. The picture plane for him is a maze. Because he loves to work from the figure, the paintings, pastels, and graphite drawings carry complexes of psychological suggestion. Much appears to be autobiographical; Pasutti's fascination with art history, his enthusiasm for Mexico, and his appreciation of the male body are evident everywhere.
-- Frank Nowosad
BRAD PASUTTI
PAINTINGS SECTION ONE
