TY - BOOK AU - Sussman,Elisabeth AU - Thek,Paul AU - Zelevansky,Lynn AU - Baker,George ED - Whitney Museum of American Art. ED - Carnegie Museum of Art. ED - Hammer Museum. TI - Paul Thek: Diver, a retrospective T2 - A Whitney Museum of American Art book SN - 9780300165951 U1 - 759.13 THE PY - 2010/// CY - New York, Pittsburgh, New Haven [Conn.] PB - Whitney Museum of American Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, Distributed by Yale University Press KW - Thek, Paul KW - Thek, Paul, N1 - Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y., Oct. 21, 2010-Jan. 9, 2011, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Feb. 5-May 1, 2011, and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, May 22-Sept. 4, 2011; Includes bibliographical references and index; Life is just a bowl of cherries : the life and art of Paul Thek / Lynn Zelevansky -- Photography in life and death : Paul Thek and photography / Elisabeth Sussman -- Magnificently schizophrenic : Paul Thek and an Italian lesson / David Breslin -- Paul Thek and the sixties surreal / Scott Rothkopf -- A work in progress or, necessity is the mother of invention : the making of A procession in honor of aesthetic progress : objects to theoretically wear, carry, pull or wave / Michael Nickel -- Beatitudes : remembering Paul Thek / Ann Wilson -- Paul Thek at documenta 5 : the case of an American-European reception / Susanne Neubauer N2 - An American sculptor, painter, & installation artist, Paul Thek (1933-1988) is primarily known for hyper-realistic works of human body parts executed in fleshlike beeswax & for his strongly symbolic, room-size installations constructed from transitory materials. This title deals with the artist\'s influence on the art world ER -