William Wegman: Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, Videotapes

William Wegman

ISBN 10: 0810939517 / ISBN 13: 9780810939516

Published by Harry N Abrams Inc, New York, 1990

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A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket. First Edition/ First Printing (no other printings noted). Book is clean, unmarked, tight and square. Mylar protected jacket is fully intact, bright and clean with no markings or tears. A solid copy over all. Seller Inventory # 001970

Bibliographic Details

Title: William Wegman: Paintings, Drawings, ...

Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc, New York

Publication Date: 1990

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Looks at Wegman's paintings, drawings, photographs, and videos, and discusses his use of humor

From Publishers Weekly:

Painter-photographer Wegman is best known for his pet dogs, notably the late Man Ray, a weimaraner. He portrays dogs in bed watching TV, dressed up as an elephant or a frog, on roller skates, etc. These jokey pictures have won him a reputation as a humorist and post-modernist commentator on art. Of greater interest are his send-ups of Caravaggio and his almost cartoon-like photographs of everyday scenes or objects. Edited by Kunz, former director of the Kunstmuseum in Switzerland, this catalogue of a traveling exhibition exhaustively surveys Wegman's photos and lighthearted videotapes; his "consistently banal" drawings, which make "a kind of anti-statement"; and his paintings, which "lure the viewer into the anxiety that Kierkegaard called 'the dizziness of freedom.' " That's a tall claim for loose, often derivative canvases. Wegman scores most effectively as a deflater of the seriousness of conceptual and minimal art.
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