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Andrew Wyeth : life and death

Title
Andrew Wyeth : life and death / Tanya Sheehan [curator] ; with contributions by Karen Baumgartner, Rachael Z. DeLue, and Alexander Nemerov.
Publication
  • Waterville, Maine : Colby College Museum of Art ; New York, New York : DelMonico Books, D.A.P., 2022.
  • Verona, Italy : Trifolio
  • ©2022

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Additional Authors
  • Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009
  • Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009.
  • Sheehan, Tanya, 1976-
  • Baumgartner, Karen
  • DeLue, Rachael Ziady
  • Nemerov, Alexander
  • Colby College. Museum of Art, issuing body, publisher, organizer, host institution
Description
143 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, facsimiles, photographs; 27 x 22 cm
Summary
"This volume presents for the first time a recently rediscovered series of pencil drawings from the early 1990s, through which Wyeth imagined his own funeral. Chapters by leading art historians explore the significance of picturing one's own death in both the context of Wyeth's late career and contemporary American art. The book connects the funeral series to Wyeth's decades-long engagement with death as an artistic subject in painting, his relationships with the models depicted, and his use of drawing as an expressive and exploratory medium. It further inserts Wyeth's work into a larger conversation about mortality and self-portraiture that developed in American art since the 1960s, and includes works by Duane Michals, Andy Warhol, David Wojnarowicz, George Tooker, Janaina Tschäpe and Mario Moore. While his contemporaries posed a variety of existential questions in picturing their own passing, those that interrogate the universality of death as a human experience have become especially urgent in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and the national reckoning with racial inequality that emerged in 2020. Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death thus addresses ideas about loss, grief, vulnerability and (im)mortality that pervade the current moment."--
Alternative Title
Life and death
Subject
  • Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009 > Exhibitions
  • Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009 > Themes, motives
  • Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009
  • Colby College. Museum of Art > Exhibitions > 21st century
  • 1900-1999
  • Death in art > Exhibitions
  • Funeral rites and ceremonies in art > Exhibitions
  • Figurative drawing, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Figurative painting, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Art, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Male artists > Pennsylvania > Chadds Ford > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Art, American
  • Painting, American
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Essays.
  • Illustrated works.
Note
  • Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, June 2-October 16, 2022.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language (note)
  • Text in American English.
Exhibitions (note)
  • "Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death" : June 2-October 16, 2022, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, United States.
Contents
Director's Foreword / Jacqueline Terrassa -- Preface / Tanya Sheehan -- Death on Kuerner's Hill / Karen Baumgartner -- Funeral group: landscapes and figure groups -- Revenant painting / Rachael Z. Delue -- The figure of fear / Alexander Nemerov -- Funeral group: portraits -- The death of the artist / Tanya Sheehan -- Contributors -- Works in the Exhibition -- Index.
Call Number
JQF 22-1684
ISBN
  • 9781636810348
  • 1636810349
LCCN
2021921889
OCLC
1289988046
Title
Andrew Wyeth : life and death / Tanya Sheehan [curator] ; with contributions by Karen Baumgartner, Rachael Z. DeLue, and Alexander Nemerov.
Publisher
Waterville, Maine : Colby College Museum of Art ; New York, New York : DelMonico Books, D.A.P., 2022.
Manufacturer
Verona, Italy : Trifolio
Copyright Date
©2022
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language
Text in American English.
Exhibitions
"Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death" : June 2-October 16, 2022, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, United States.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Place of Publication
United States Maine Waterville.
United States New York (State) New York.
Added Author
Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009, artist.
Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009. Works. Selections.
Sheehan, Tanya, 1976- curator, writer of preface, author.
Baumgartner, Karen, author.
DeLue, Rachael Ziady, author.
Nemerov, Alexander, author.
Colby College. Museum of Art, issuing body, publisher, organizer, host institution.
Research Call Number
JQF 22-1684
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