Jim Dine: Drawing from the Glyptothek

DINE, Jim, Ruth E. Fine, and Stephen Fleischman

ISBN 10: 1555950965 / ISBN 13: 9781555950965

Published by Hudson Hills Press in association with Madison Art Center, New York and Madison, WI, 1993

About this Item

First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Published in conjunction an exhibition that ran April 17 through June 13, 1993 at the Madison Art Center and then traveled to four other locations for additional dates. Features essays by Stephen Fleishman, Ruth E. Fine and Jim Dine. Includes 74 color plates and 24 black and white illustrations, a chronology, selected bibliography, acknowledgements, and an index. A clean very near fine copy in black cloth boards and in very near fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 195285

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Jim Dine: Drawing from the Glyptothek
• Publisher: Hudson Hills Press in association with Madison Art Center, New York and Madison, WI
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555950965
• ISBN 13: 9781555950965
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: dj
• Weight: 3.5 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art Monographs

About this title

Synopsis

Great Pop draftsman's bravura tribute to masterpieces of Greek and Roman sculpture.

Reviews

Although best known for his pop-linked paintings of hearts, tools and robes, Dine based his exuberant drawings of Greek and Roman sculpture on his visits to the Glyptothek, Munich's museum of antiquities, as well as on statuary from the British Museum and the Prado. These mostly extroverted, bravura drawings are a form of time travel, an imaginative attempt to fathom the classical world while maintaining a modernist consciousness. The result is a curious hybrid, sometimes strained or unconvincing but often quite powerful, as in the fiercely expressionistic Wounded Trojan, who seems to represent the agony of all dying soldiers. In one hauntingly reflective study, the bust of Homer hovers above the nebulous face of Socrates like a Rorschach blot, a dark premonition of Western civilization. This handsome catalogue of a traveling exhibit includes appreciations by Fine, curator of modern prints at the National Gallery of Art, and Fleischman, director of the Madison Art Center in Wisconsin.
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