Verlag: The Whitney Museum of American Art, 2009
ISBN 10: 030015898X ISBN 13: 9780300158984
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Zustand: Used - Very Good. 2009. Hardcover. Very Good.
Verlag: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2009
ISBN 10: 030015898X ISBN 13: 9780300158984
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Verlag: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York / The Menil Collection, Houston / Distributed by Yale University Press, 2009
ISBN 10: 030015898X ISBN 13: 9780300158984
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Zustand: Wie neu. 102 Seiten mit zahlreichen Abbildungen, Sehr guter Zustand - geringfügige Gebrauchsspuren - fast wie neu. This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Steve Wolf on Paper", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York : September 30 - November 29, 2009 / The Menil Collection, Houston : April 2 - October 31, 2020. "Steve Wolfe, an internationally renowned artist whose best-known works are books or are they? died last month at his home in San Francisco. He was 60. Mr. Wolfe died alone, and neither the precise date, circa May 13, nor the precise cause, is known, his family said. A painter and sculptor, Mr. Wolfe brought a postmodern sensibility to the venerable tradition of trompe l'oeil, in which a work seeks to trick the eye by lending the illusion of three dimensions to a two-dimensional surface. His preferred subject matter was books, singly and by the boxful, their creased, age-stained, sometimes Scotch-taped covers exuding companionable familiarity: "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas," by Gertrude Stein; "Farewell, My Lovely," by Raymond Chandler; James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"; the emblematic "Remembrance of Things Past," by Proust; and the perhaps even more emblematic "Speak, Memory," by Vladimir Nabokov. But though Mr. Wolfe's screened-printed jacket designs and typefaces impeccably recreated those of the original volumes, his books were not books but paintings playful, thoughtful one-offs designed to be hung on gallery walls. As such, they became potent emblems of nostalgia, binding up (although they had no bindings) wistful longing for the beloved bibliographic companions of years gone by. Reviewing an exhibition of Mr. Wolfe's work at the Luhring Augustine gallery in Manhattan in 2003, Holland Cotter wrote in The New York Times: "Mr. Wolfe has been creating his bibliographical art for years, and it has not escaped accusations of preciousness. In my view it is saved, even elevated, by its conceptual smarts, which are acute and to which technical finesse is not incidental. Mr. Wolfe offers us work of 20th-century giants of fictional self-scrutiny, James Joyce and Proust among them, but as blocks of unopenable matter." He added: "In short, the histories trapped in the work are what warm up the optical tours de force." Mr. Wolfe, whose art is in the collections of major museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, also turned his hand to the fondly remembered long-playing records of his youth. In his versions rendered on board in oils and enamels the labels have been faithfully reproduced and the well-worn grooves painstakingly incised by hand."(The New York Times). Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 580 Illustrierter OPappband, 28,6 x 19,2 cm.
Verlag: Yale University Press 2009-11-03, New Haven, Conn., 2009
ISBN 10: 030015898X ISBN 13: 9780300158984
Anbieter: Blackwell's, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
hardback. Zustand: New. Language: ENG.