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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
304
Utgivningsdatum
2006-03-01
Upplaga
illustrated ed
Förlag
Yale University Press
Illustrationer
293 color illus.
Dimensioner
265 x 190 x 20 mm
Vikt
1220 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780300114447

William Wegman

Funney/Strange

av William Wegman, Joan Simon
Häftad,  Engelska, 2006-03-01
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A comprehensive and intriguing look at the witty and sophisticated art of William Wegman, beloved by the general public and held in critical esteem within the international art world This fascinating book reveals the full range of William Wegmans art. Beloved by the general public for signature photographs of his troupe of Weimaraners, Wegman is also an immensely important figure in the contemporary art world. A pioneer video-maker, conceptualist, performer, photographer, painter, draftsman, and writer, Wegman moves fluidly among various media: from conceptual works to commissioned magazine shots; from videos shown in museums to television segments made for Sesame Street and Saturday Night Live; from artists books parodying nineteenth-century naturalist studies to childrens books revealing tongue-in-cheek portraits of town and country life; from photographic landscapes employing his canine muses to his most recent cycle of landscapes combining found scenic souvenir postcards with drawing, collage, and painting. Underlying all his creations is the light humor of funny mediating the darker human comedy of strange. Speaking to the absurdities of daily life, Wegmans work is universally appealing. William Wegman: FunneyStrange is illustrated with some 250 images. It is the first retrospective volume to consider the artists entire career from the 1960s to the 2000s and is an essential book for any fan of Wegmans work. Published in association with the Addison Gallery of American Art Exhibition Schedule: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts (April 7 July 31, 2007) Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach (November 4, 2006 January 28, 2007) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. ( July 4 September 24, 2006) The Brooklyn Museum (March 10 May 28, 2006)
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Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts (April 7 July 31, 2007) * Addison Gallery of American Art * Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach (November 4, 2006 January 28, 2007) * Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach * Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. ( July 4 September 24, 2006) * Smithsonian American Art Museum * The Brooklyn Museum (March 10 May 28, 2006) * The Brooklyn Museum * "The retrospective of William Wegman's multifarious career. . . simultaneously confirms why Mr. Wegman hasn't always received the respect he deserves and why he deserves it. The short explanationon both countsis that he has been too innovatively funny for too long and on too many levels (visual, verbal, commercial and arty) for people to see the serious artist behind the inveterate jokester. He's also been funny in too many mediums for his achievement to be easily grasped. . . . In his long and productive career, Mr.Wegman has remained as true as any of his legendary 1970's contemporaries to the belief that the artist's job is to make something that doesn't look like art. . . . His best work juggles the many balls of Post-Minimalismprocess, language, performancewith an amateurish finesse that few of his contemporaries match. . . . He has not only embraced Americana, but he has also become part of it."Roberta Smith, The New York Times -- Roberta Smith * The New York Times *

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JOAN SIMON is curator-at-large for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. She is also a contributing editor to Art in America and has worked independently for museums, foundations, and publishers in the U.S. and Europe.

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