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Walter Robinson / edited by Barry Blinderman.

Title
Walter Robinson / edited by Barry Blinderman.
Publication
[Normal, Illinois] : University Galleries, Illinois State University, [2015]

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Additional Authors
  • Robinson, Walter.
  • Blinderman, Barry
  • Blinderman, Barry.
  • Schulmen, Vanessa Meikle.
  • O'Brien, Glenn.
  • Stuckey, Charles F.
  • Illinois State University. University Galleries, host institution.
  • Moore College of Art and Design host institution.
Description
143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 27 cm
Summary
By 1980 Walter Robinson (born 1950) had established himself as a critic for Art in America and member of the New York artists' collective Collaborative Projects. He became notable for paintings of square-jawed detective-hero types and swooning vixens based on pulp romance covers. Employing what critic Carlo McCormick termed a devious sense of irony done with incredible sincerity, he examined painting's relationship to mass-culture images of desire, mining lurid illustrations from the 1940s and 50s and rerepresenting them in a style culled from how to paint books. Robinson's subsequent paintings of beer cans and bottles, pharmaceuticals, fast-food burgers, Lands' End models and online erotic selfies continue to address our indulgence of longing and excess in a media-saturated world.
Alternative Title
Walter Robinson, paintings and other indulgences.
Subject
  • Robinson, Walter > Exhibitions
  • Robinson, Walter
  • 1900 - 2099
  • Painting, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Painting, American > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • Painting, American
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs
Note
  • "This book was published in conjunction with Walter Robinson: paintings and other indulgences, curated by Barry Blinderman and presented at University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal, from October 17 through December 21, 2014, and at The Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, from January 23 through March 12, 2016."--Page 143.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-133).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Travels in consumerist utopia / Barry Blinderman -- Walter Robinson : badness embraced / Vanessa Meikle Schulman -- This Bud's for you / Glenn O'Brien -- Walter and me / Charles F. Stuckey -- Illustrated chronology -- Biography & bibliography -- Works in the exhibition.
ISBN
  • 9780945558415
  • 0945558414
OCLC
  • 898530868
  • SCSB-10168318
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library