Gold without Boundaries Writings by Ralph Esmerian, Paul Theroux, Donald Kuspit, and David Bennett and Daniel Brush. Photographs by John Bigelow Taylor, 300 illustrations, including 175 plates in full color, 26 duotone photographs, and 99 line drawings. Harry N. Abrams Inc

This lavish monograph reveals the extraordinary world of Daniel Brush. Brush's thirty-year career includes early paintting exhibitions at the Phillips Collection and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, followed by a period of virtual seclusion, study, and intense productivity. The resulting works, all handwrought by the artist, are presented here in 175 glorious full-color photographs made especially for this volume. Included are delicate and detailed granulated-gold domes in the tradition of the ancient goldsmiths, jewel-encrusted objects of virtue and fantasy, monumental gold and steel sculptures, some only a few inches high-unseen until now by most of the world.

Also reproduced are paintings and drawings, as well as duotone photographs of Brush's studio, which introduce the reader to the artist's very private environment. A series of writings, often incorporating Brush's own words, traces the artist's remarkable journey of visual discovery and enlightenment. Renowned author Paul Theroux renders an insightful protrait of a creative genius removed from the everyday. Respected art critic Donald Kuspit examines the idiosyncratic focus of Brush's work in relation to twentieth-century art traditions. Two distinguished object and gem experts provide studies: Ralph Esmerian contributes an intimate foreword, and David Bennett's philosophical conversations with Brush explore the rigorous discipline and contemplation involved in the art-making process.

The book also includes an afterword by Elizabeth Broun, director of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, and Jeremy Adamson, senior curator at the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art.

Authors:
Paul Theroux is an internationally renowned author of both fiction(The Mosquito Coast, My Secret History, The Collected Stories) and nonfiction (The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonain Express, On the Edge of the Great Rift.

Donald Kuspit is a professor of art history at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Andrew White professor at large at Cornell University. He is a contributing editor at Art Forum, Sculpture, and New Examiner magazines, and editor of Art Criticism. Among the many books he has written are Karel Appel Sculpture: A Catalogue Raisonné, published by Abrams , and Idiosyncratic Identities: Artists at the End of the Avant-Garde.

Ralph Esmerian, an expert on colored gemstones and the history of jewels ,is also a noted collector in several fields and president of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of American Folk Art, New York.

David Bennett is an expert in jewels and precious objects. He serves as director of international jewels for Sotheby's Europe; he is also chairman of Sotheby's in Switzerland.

Daniel Brush is a former professor of art at Georgetown University. He exhibited his paintings internationally in the 1970's and 1980's. During the same period, he began to create jeweled objects and sculptures-infused with a master's touch and mind. His works are owned by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Van Cleef and Arpels, and Boucheron, in addition to several royal and private collections.

The book also includes and afterword by Elizabeth Broun, director of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, and Jeremy Adamson, senior curator at the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art.

Photographer
John Bigelow Taylor is one of the world's premier photographers of objects of art. His work has appeared in many distinguished art books, including The Cycladic Spirit and The Currency of Fame: Renaissance Portrait Medals, both published by Abrams. He and his partner Dianne Dubler travel widely on photographic assignments.