Each of these passionate essays by Chaim Koppelman, an esteemed printmaker, illustrates the great Aesthetic Realism principle, "All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves." He writes of the ethical meaning in the greatest prints of Picasso, Munch, Hogarth and Daumier, and we see in their powerful and subtle oneness of opposites--dark and light, depth and bright surface, mass and delicate line--what we and all people want to do in our lives. Picasso's "Minotauromachy" is powerful and tender, and Munch, he writes, "is showing a dramatic oneness of closeness and distance, presence and absence."
  Chaim Koppelman has taught printmaking at the School of Visual Arts since 1959 and is on the faculty of the Aesthetic Realism Foundation. His work is in most major collections, including: MOMA,  the Met, Whitney, Guggenheim, Philadelphia museums. He was honored in 2004 with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society of American Graphic Artists. 
 

32 pages (7"x8.5"), illustrations, $5.95