Paul Thek : Diver, a retrospective / Elisabeth Sussman and Lynn Zelevansky ; with contributions by George Baker ... [et al.].
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TextSeries: A Whitney Museum of American Art bookPublication details: New York : Whitney Museum of American Art ; Pittsburgh : Carnegie Museum of Art ; New Haven [Conn.] : Distributed by Yale University Press, c2010.Description: 304 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cmISBN: - 9780300165951
- 0300165951
- Diver, a retrospective
- 759.13 THE
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 759.13 THE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100464685 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
An American sculptor, painter, and installation artist, Paul Thek (1933--1988) is primarily known for hyper-realistic works of human body parts executed in fleshlike beeswax and for his strongly symbolic, room-size installations constructed from transitory materials. A major figure on the 1960s New York art scene, Thek also spent time in Europe, where he paved the way for artists adopting collaborative strategies. Although he gained a large following and was featured in more than one hundred solo and group exhibitions, the anti-establishment "artist's artist" was practically forgotten at the time of his death.
Major exhibitions abroad and critical attention from younger artists have done much to revive his reputation, and Paul Thek: Diver expands on those efforts by bringing the artist's resounding influence on the art world up to date. Published to accompany Thek's first retrospective in the United States, this landmark publication includes nearly 300 chronologically arranged illustrations of sculptures, paintings, prints, and other works featured in the exhibition as well as four special "in-depth" image sections focusing on key installations, projects, and pages from the artist's journals. An extensive selection of documentary photographs, many never before published, illuminate Thek's artistic aesthetic and production process. With a bibliography, exhibition history, and checklist of works in the exhibition, this overdue acknowledgment of Thek's brief, but broad-reaching career will be the authoritative volume on the artist for years to come.
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.
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.