Gary Hume : the bird has a yellow beak / [Rudolf Sagmeister, curator].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hume, Gary, 1962-

Contributor:

Sagmeister, Rudolf, 1957-

Kunsthaus Bregenz.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Hume, Gary, 1962---Exhibitions.

Hume, Gary.

Hume, Gary, 1962-.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

161 pages : illustrations (chiefly color, some folded) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Bregenz : Kunsthaus Bregenz, [2004]

Language Note:

German and English.

Summary:

In the 80s, Gary Hume became a star of the young British Art (YBA) movement virtually overnight. His "Doors series, which brought him this early success, are based on real doors found in public institutions like hospitals and schools, but Hume represents them sparsely and richly, liberally borrowing strategies from the color field and hard-edge abstraction movements. Beyond doors, Hume has depicted windows, flora, fauna, and Michael Jackson, all in his trademark technique of using commercial house paint poured onto aluminum panels. The effect is one of brilliant luster, in which slick smooth surfaces of high-gloss paint reveal embedded relief drawings. "The Bird has a Yellow Beak features a retrospective selection of approximately 70 works, including many never-before-published drawings. Heavy glossy varnish coatings over the reproductions coney an appealing sense of the crucial surfaces of Hume's paintings.

Notes:

Catalog of exhibition held at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Jan. 24-Mar. 21, 2004.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

3883758035

OCLC:

56388337