Andrew Wyeth, life and death, Tanya Sheehan [curator] ; with contributions by Karen Baumgartner, Rachael Z. DeLue, and Alexander Nemerov
Type
Label
Andrew Wyeth, life and death, Tanya Sheehan [curator] ; with contributions by Karen Baumgartner, Rachael Z. DeLue, and Alexander Nemerov
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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contains biographical information
Illustrations
facsimilesphotographsportraitsillustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Andrew Wyeth
Nature of contents
catalogsbibliography
Oclc number
1289988046
Responsibility statement
Tanya Sheehan [curator] ; with contributions by Karen Baumgartner, Rachael Z. DeLue, and Alexander Nemerov
Sub title
life and death
Summary
"This volume presents for the first time a recently rediscovered series of pencil drawings from the early 1990s, through which Wyeth imagined his own funeral. Chapters by leading art historians explore the significance of picturing one's own death in both the context of Wyeth's late career and contemporary American art. The book connects the funeral series to Wyeth's decades-long engagement with death as an artistic subject in painting, his relationships with the models depicted, and his use of drawing as an expressive and exploratory medium. It further inserts Wyeth's work into a larger conversation about mortality and self-portraiture that developed in American art since the 1960s, and includes works by Duane Michals, Andy Warhol, David Wojnarowicz, George Tooker, Janaina Tschäpe and Mario Moore. While his contemporaries posed a variety of existential questions in picturing their own passing, those that interrogate the universality of death as a human experience have become especially urgent in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and the national reckoning with racial inequality that emerged in 2020. Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death thus addresses ideas about loss, grief, vulnerability and (im)mortality that pervade the current moment."--, Publisher's description
Target audience
general
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Life and death
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Subject
- Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009 -- Exhibitions
- Colby College, Museum of Art -- Exhibitions -- 21st century
- Art américain -- 20e siècle -- Expositions
- Art, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
- Figurative painting, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
- Painting, American
- Peinture américaine -- 20e siècle -- Expositions
- Exhibition catalogs
- 1900-1999
- Death in art -- Exhibitions
- Figurative drawing, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
- Male artists -- Pennsylvania -- Chadds Ford -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
- Funeral rites and ceremonies in art -- Exhibitions
- Art, American
- Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Essays
- Illustrated works
- Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009
- Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009 -- Themes, motives
Content
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- Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009 -- Exhibitions
- Colby College, Museum of Art -- Exhibitions -- 21st century
- Art américain -- 20e siècle -- Expositions
- Art, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
- Figurative painting, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
- Painting, American
- Peinture américaine -- 20e siècle -- Expositions
- Exhibition catalogs
- 1900-1999
- Death in art -- Exhibitions
- Figurative drawing, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
- Male artists -- Pennsylvania -- Chadds Ford -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
- Funeral rites and ceremonies in art -- Exhibitions
- Art, American
- Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Essays
- Illustrated works
- Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009
- Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009 -- Themes, motives
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