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Catalogue >Fine Art >  Contemporary >  John Salt: The Complete Works 1969-2006 John Salt: The Complete Works 1969-2006 Linda Chase John Salt's exquisite and intriguing evocations of abandoned cars and dilapidated trailers, often depicted in a rural setting, expand our definition of landscape and place him among the foremost realist painters of his generation. A British artist who spent two decades living and painting in the United States, he came to prominence in the early 1970s as a leading and innovative Photorealist. 192 pages | 275 x 245 mm | about 130 colour illustrations | hardback ISBN 0 85667 634 9 EAN 9780856676345  Online price: £30.00 / €45.00 Based on extensive interviews with the artist, the author explores Salt's influences, inspirations and technique, placing his work in the context of Photorealism and of British and American realist traditions. This comprehensive volume contains illustrations of the artist's complete works from 1969 through 2006. About the author: Linda Chase is the author of several works on contemporary realism including Hypperealism, (Rizzoli, NY 1975) and Photorealism at the Millennium (with Louis Meisel), Harry N. Abrams, NY 2000). She has been the director and curator of several national and international realist exhibitions and has written numerous museum and gallery catalogues. Her groundbreaking interviews with the Photorealists in the early 1970s helped to establish the place of this movement in contemporary art.