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PublisherD.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers

ISBN-101636810349

ISBN-139781636810348

eBay Product ID (ePID)21057278176

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Book TitleAndrew Wyeth: Life and Death

Number of Pages144 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2022

TopicIndividual Artists / Monographs, General, American / General

IllustratorYes

GenreArt

AuthorAndrew Wyeth

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight27.3 Oz

Item Length10.5 in

Item Width8.2 in

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ReviewsThese are honest, personal drawings, a mixture of unaffected sketches which were made quickly as brief compositional notes and sensitive portrait studies., Takes a stark, unflinching view of death. & Puts Wyeth into direct dialogue with some of his more conceptually minded contemporaries, including David Wojnarowicz, Janaina Tschäpe, and Andy Warhol. Unlike the other Andy s Skulls screen print, 1976, Wyeth s lost studies refuse to relegate death to the world of spectacle., Takes a stark, unflinching view of death. ... Puts Wyeth into direct dialogue with some of his more conceptually minded contemporaries, including David Wojnarowicz, Janaina Tschäpe, and Andy Warhol. Unlike the other Andy's 'Skulls' screen print, 1976, Wyeth's lost studies refuse to relegate death to the world of spectacle.

SynopsisPresenting recently rediscovered drawings, Life and Death explores what it means for an artist to picture their own death, in both the context of Wyeth's late career and contemporary American art 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. American painter Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) lived his entire life in his birthplace of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and his summer home in mid-coast Maine. His seven-decade career was spent painting the land and people that he knew and cared about. Renowned for his tempera painting Christina's World (1948), Wyeth navigated between artistic representation and abstraction in a highly personal way.

Text byBaumgartner, Karen, DeLue, Rachael