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From Publishers Weekly: "He is an American painter, someone who paints for a living and whose subject, for all its formal perfection, is what we are to make of American abundance," writes New Yorker art critic Gopnik in his long, in-jokey introductory essay to Thiebaud's oeuvre now touring the country as a retrospective. As Gopnik makes clear, Thiebaud is famous for his lush early '60s paintings of cakes, other sweets and people eating them, but this book and the exhibition it documentsAput together by chief curator Nash of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, who also provides an essayAreveal the painter to be preoccupied with a larger slice of American life. The impossible perspectives and multigraded blues and yellows of the cityscapes here seem more bizarrely true to San Francisco than stills from Vertigo. Heavy Traffic, Deli Bowls, Tie Rack and Rabbit are just what they say they are, yet their surfaces coax us into looking at them harder and longer than such banal objects could possibly entice on their own. Such dressings-up themselves are commonplace in media-saturated American life, and Thiebaud redirects their energy unerringly throughout the 160 illustrations here, most in color. One might wish for a less insidery guide to the work than Gopnik's, but the panache of his biographical prose carries readers right into the paintings, well and comprehensively selected by Nash, whose own essay provides welcome detail on Thiebaud's working life. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherFine Arts Museums of San Francisco / Thames & Hudson
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0884011011
- ISBN 13 9780884011019
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages215
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Softcover. Color wraps. 215 pp. 27+ bw, 120 color plates. Text by Steven A. Nash with Adam Gopnik. VG: Exlibrary book. Stamp on half-title page. Stamp on last page. Sticker and due date card on back inside cover. Stamp on top text block. Seller Inventory # 21712
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Trade PB. 4to. Published by Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, CA. 2000. 192 pgs. Illustrated. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Wayne Thiebaud, the California-based painter, has produced works of complexity and distinction that appear deceptively simple in terms of subject matter and in their presentation yet draw on many historical sources. In fact, Thiebaud is part of the grand tradition of representational art from Chardin and Manet to the American Realist masters such as Eakins and Hopper. Best-known for his deadpan still-life paintings of cakes, pies, delicatessen counters, and other consumer goods, Thiebaud has also explored such themes as figure studies, the topography of Northern California, and cityscapes exaggerating the vertiginous roadways and geometric high-rises of San Francisco. Continuous throughout his career is his combination of the perceptual and the conceptual, of sensuous color, light, and painterly texture with rigorously formal composition, resulting in a highly personalized Americana. Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective is published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same title, the first major survey in fifteen years of work by this famous American figurative artist. Steven A. Nash, Associate Director and Chief Curator at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, has organized the exhibition and provides a biographical essay on Thiebaud. An extended essay by Adam Gopnik, the Paris Journal writer for The New Yorker, links Thiebaud to American writing as a painter in the tradition of Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and John Updike. ; 12.20 X 10.20 X 1 inches; 192 pages. Seller Inventory # 67360
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Soft cover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Catalog published on the occasion "Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective" at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; The Philips Collection; Washington D.C.; and the Whitney Museum of American art from June 10, 2000 to September 23, 2001. Cover corners are lightly worn. Top corner of front cover is creased. Spine is lightly sunned, but text is legible. Inside is clean and unmarked. Seller Inventory # 2046031
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