WILLIAM WEGMAN PAINTINGS DRAWINGS PHOTOGRAPHS VIDEOTAPES

Wegman,William

ISBN 10: 0810939517 / ISBN 13: 9780810939516

Published by NY Abrams 1990, 1990

About this Item

Large 4to, Fine in D.J. INSCRIBED BY WEGMAN in 199l with a drawing of two bones? and a picture of Man Ray? (L).

Seller Inventory # 40

Bibliographic Details

• Title: WILLIAM WEGMAN PAINTINGS DRAWINGS PHOTOGRAPHS VIDEOTAPES
• Publisher: NY Abrams 1990
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810939517
• ISBN 13: 9780810939516
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Profusely Illustrated
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • photography

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Synopsis

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

Reviews

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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