Andrew Wyeth. Life and Death
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- Nombre de pages143
- PrésentationRelié
- FormatGrand Format
- Poids0.775 kg
- Dimensions21,0 cm × 26,0 cm × 2,0 cm
- ISBN978-1-63681-034-8
- EAN9781636810348
- Date de parution02/05/2022
- ÉditeurCoédition DelMonico Books DAP/Colby College Museum
- ContributeurKaren Baumgartner
- ContributeurRachael DeLue
- ContributeurAlexander Nemerov
Résumé
Nearly two decades before his death, Andrew Wyeth made a series of drawings in which he imagined his own funeral. The artworks, dating to the early 1990s, portray Wyeth's friends, neighbors, and his wife, Betsy, surrounding a wooden box at the base of Kuerner's Hill in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, a site he long associated with death. Some of the drawings offer a view inside the coffin, revealing a rare self-portrait.
Publishing for the first time these recently rediscovered sketches, now known as the Funeral Group, Andrew Wyeth : Life and Death considers Wyeth's decades-long exploration of death as an artistic subject. Juxtaposing the Funeral Group with other reflections on mortality through self-portraiture, this volume shows Wyeth deeply engaged in existential questions that have long preoccupied conceptual, performance, and activist artists about confronting one's own passing and the universality of death as a human experience.
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and the national reckoning with racial inequality that intersected in 2020, Andrew Wyeth : Life and Death addresses ideas about loss, grief, vulnerability, and mortality that pervade the current moment.
Publishing for the first time these recently rediscovered sketches, now known as the Funeral Group, Andrew Wyeth : Life and Death considers Wyeth's decades-long exploration of death as an artistic subject. Juxtaposing the Funeral Group with other reflections on mortality through self-portraiture, this volume shows Wyeth deeply engaged in existential questions that have long preoccupied conceptual, performance, and activist artists about confronting one's own passing and the universality of death as a human experience.
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and the national reckoning with racial inequality that intersected in 2020, Andrew Wyeth : Life and Death addresses ideas about loss, grief, vulnerability, and mortality that pervade the current moment.
Nearly two decades before his death, Andrew Wyeth made a series of drawings in which he imagined his own funeral. The artworks, dating to the early 1990s, portray Wyeth's friends, neighbors, and his wife, Betsy, surrounding a wooden box at the base of Kuerner's Hill in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, a site he long associated with death. Some of the drawings offer a view inside the coffin, revealing a rare self-portrait.
Publishing for the first time these recently rediscovered sketches, now known as the Funeral Group, Andrew Wyeth : Life and Death considers Wyeth's decades-long exploration of death as an artistic subject. Juxtaposing the Funeral Group with other reflections on mortality through self-portraiture, this volume shows Wyeth deeply engaged in existential questions that have long preoccupied conceptual, performance, and activist artists about confronting one's own passing and the universality of death as a human experience.
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and the national reckoning with racial inequality that intersected in 2020, Andrew Wyeth : Life and Death addresses ideas about loss, grief, vulnerability, and mortality that pervade the current moment.
Publishing for the first time these recently rediscovered sketches, now known as the Funeral Group, Andrew Wyeth : Life and Death considers Wyeth's decades-long exploration of death as an artistic subject. Juxtaposing the Funeral Group with other reflections on mortality through self-portraiture, this volume shows Wyeth deeply engaged in existential questions that have long preoccupied conceptual, performance, and activist artists about confronting one's own passing and the universality of death as a human experience.
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and the national reckoning with racial inequality that intersected in 2020, Andrew Wyeth : Life and Death addresses ideas about loss, grief, vulnerability, and mortality that pervade the current moment.