Alexis Rockman: A Fable for Tomorrow - Hardcover

by Joanna Marsh (Author), Kevin J. Avery (Contribution by), Thomas Lovejoy (Contribution by)

Features 47 artworks from private and public collections that trace the artist's career from Pond's Edge (1986) to The Reef (2009). Inspired by 19th-century landscape painting, science fiction film, and firsthand field study, Rockman's paintings proffer a vision of the natural world that is equal parts fantasy and empirical fact.

Author Biography

Joanna Marsh is The James Dicke Curator of Contemporary Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Kevin J. Avery is a senior research scholar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Thomas Lovejoy is a leading biologist and Biodiversity Chair at The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment, Washington, D.C.