Research Catalog

Title

Pan paintings / B. Wurtz ; editor, Barney Kulok.

Author

Wurtz, B., 1948-

Publication

Long Island City, NY : Hunters Point Press, 2020.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cooke, Erica
• Kulok, Barney

Description

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations; 26 x 26 cm

Summary

For nearly five decades New York-based artist B. Wurtz (born 1948) has transformed humble materials and discarded objects into humorous and wryly beautiful works of art. This full-color, Swiss-bound monograph focuses on the artist's iconic series of "pan paintings" made on disposable aluminum roasting pans and to-go containers. In 1990, Wurtz discovered patterns stamped in the bottom of these mass-produced products and grasped their potential as "readymade abstract paintings." In the three decades since, he has worked across a wide variety of pan shapes and sizes, applying dazzling combinations of color using the patterns as predetermined compositions. Collected here for the first time, Pan Paintings provides an overview of the various permutations in color and shape that comprise this long-term series. The book includes an essay by art historian and curator Erica Cooke which considers this critically acclaimed body of work and its deep entanglement with the craft-oriented ethos and amateur culture of postwar America.

Subject

• Wurtz, B., 1948-
• Kitchen utensils in art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JQF 21-175

ISBN

• 0578634309
• 9780578634302

OCLC

1159574628

Author

Wurtz, B., 1948- artist.

Title

Pan paintings / B. Wurtz ; editor, Barney Kulok.

Publisher

Long Island City, NY : Hunters Point Press, 2020.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Cooke, Erica, author of essay.

Kulok, Barney, editor.

Research Call Number

JQF 21-175