Louisa Matthiasdottir
Edited by Jed Perl
Contributions from Vigdis Finnbogadottir, John Ashbery, Adalsteinn Ingolfsson, Martica Sawin, Jed Perl and Lance Esplund
square 4to. pp. 198. profusely illustrated. bibliography. hardcover. dw. (fine condition). New York: Hudson Hill Press, [1999].
ISBN-10: 155595197X / ISBN-13: 9781555951979
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The artist's dazzling landscapes, still lifes, and self-portraits are a defining achievement of postwar American art, uniting bold colour, spare geometric composition, and naturalistic observation. Matthiasdottir returned regularly to her native Iceland, the subject of much of her work.