William Wegman: Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, Videotapes - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810924633 ISBN 13: 9780810924635

Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1994

Synopsis

Looks at Wegman's paintings, drawings, photographs, and videos, and discusses his use of humor

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Painter-photographer Wegman is best known for his pet dogs, notably the late Man Ray, a weimaraner. He portrays dogs in bed watching TV, dressed up as an elephant or a frog, on roller skates, etc. These jokey pictures have won him a reputation as a humorist and post-modernist commentator on art. Of greater interest are his send-ups of Caravaggio and his almost cartoon-like photographs of everyday scenes or objects. Edited by Kunz, former director of the Kunstmuseum in Switzerland, this catalogue of a traveling exhibition exhaustively surveys Wegman's photos and lighthearted videotapes; his "consistently banal" drawings, which make "a kind of anti-statement"; and his paintings, which "lure the viewer into the anxiety that Kierkegaard called 'the dizziness of freedom.' " That's a tall claim for loose, often derivative canvases. Wegman scores most effectively as a deflater of the seriousness of conceptual and minimal art.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0810924633
• ISBN 13: 9780810924635
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Kunz Martin Nicholas