Tom Wesselmann : standing still lifes / Tom Wesselmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wesselmann, Tom, 1931-2004, artist.

Contributor:

Merjian, Ara H., 1974- writer of added text.

Craig-Martin, Michael, 1941- writer of added text.

Sturges, Jeffrey, writer of added text.

Mahony, Lauren, writer of added text.

Gagosian Gallery, issuing body, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wesselmann, Tom, 1931-2004--Exhibitions.

Wesselmann, Tom.

Wesselmann, Tom, 1931-2004.

Still-life in art--Exhibitions.

Still-life in art.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

184 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 34 cm

Other Title:

Standing still lifes

Wesselmann

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Gagosian, [2018]

Summary:

Gagosian is pleased to present Tom Wesselmann: Standing Still Lifes, an exhibition of nine monumental works made between 1967 and 1981. This is the first time that the complete series will be shown together. Each large-scale work comprises multiple canvases, both hanging and standing, shaped according to the outlines of the commonplace objects that they depict. Wesselmann's spatial and pictorial innovation in the Standing Still Life paintings have precedents in his early work. His drawings of his wife and lifelong muse, Claire Selley--beginning in the 1950s when they met as students at Cooper Union--often took the form of hybrid collages that incorporated sketches and scraps of wallpaper and advertisements that he found in the New York City subway. Similarly, his early assemblage paintings, which included functioning objects and gadgets, present shifting images that advance and retreat depending on the viewer's relative position, like stage sets that can be seen but not entered.--Gallery website.

Contents:

West 24th Street New York

"Banal interior"/Magical precipice": Tom Wesselmann's standing still lifes / by Ara H. Merjian

Paintings, drawings, maquettes

The parameters of perception: Michael Craig-Martin and Jeffrey Sturges in conversation

Chronology 1959-1982 / by Lauren Mahony

List of works.

Notes:

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Gagosian, New York, New York, January 18-February 24, 2018.

"Organized in collaboration with the Estate of the Artist."

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Wesselmann, Tom, 1931-2004. Works. Selections.

ISBN:

9781938748585

1938748581

0847864057

9780847864058

OCLC:

1039888433