{"product_id":"9781846380327","title":"Mary Heilmann: Save the Last Dance for Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn illustrated study of Mary Heilmann's seductive 1979 abstract painting in hot pink and black, \u003ci\u003eSave the Last Dance for Me\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"You want beauty? I'll give you beauty!\" — Mary Heilmann\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Heilmann is one of the most important abstract painters of her generation. Her distinctively fluid, humorous, and bright canvases combine the modes of Abstract Expressionism with a vibrant Pop sensibility. Heilmannn's 1979 painting in hot pink and black, evocatively titled \u003ci\u003eSave the Last Dance for Me\u003c\/i\u003e, marked a shift in the artist's perspective. Heilmann describes it: \"Now the work came from a different place. Instead of working out of modernist non-image formalism, I began to see that the choices in the work depended more on content for their meaning.\" This beautifully illustrated study of \u003ci\u003eSave the Last Dance for Me\u003c\/i\u003e explores the development of Heilmann's work, and the way it continues to engage us — psychologically, sensually, and socially.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe three bright pink rectangles in Heilmann's painting seem to dance off the edge of the canvas, through a black field that seems dark as a nightclub after midnight — or perhaps the three are actually one pink rectangle, seen in a blissfully formal time lapse, moving across the dance floor\/canvas. These definitively modernist geometric forms coexist with a sense of movement in real time. For many, abstraction may have been dancing its last dance in 1979, but Heilmann's bright pink rectangles boogie on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Afterall Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47062602842352,"sku":"9781846380327","price":32.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781846380327_p0.jpg?v=1763749580","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781846380327","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}