My father's house : on Will Barnet's paintings / Thomas Dumm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dumm, Thomas L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Barnet, Will, 1911-2012--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Barnet, Will.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (139 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In My Father's House, the political philosopher Thomas Dumm explores a series of stark and melancholy paintings by the American artist Will Barnet. Responding to the physical and mental decline of his sister Eva, who lived alone in the family home in Beverly, Massachusetts, Barnet began work in 1990 on what became a series of nine paintings depicting Eva and other family members, as they once were and as they figured in the artist's memory. Rendered in Barnet's signature quiet, abstract style, the paintings, each featured in full color, present the ordinary and extraordinary aspects of a twent

Contents:

Introduction: the living and the dead

My father's house

The dream

The family (the kitchen)

The mantle

The vase

Three windows

The mother

The father

The golden frame.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822355588

0822355582

9780822377283

0822377284

OCLC:

884015010