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Paul Thek : Diver, a retrospective /

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 art...

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Main Authors: Thek, Paul
Corporate Authors: Whitney Museum of American Art.; Carnegie Museum of Art; Hammer Museum
Group Author: Sussman, Elisabeth, 1939-; Zelevansky, Lynn; Baker, George (George Thomas), 1970-
Published: Whitney Museum of American Art ,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 2011.
©2010
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: A Whitney Museum of American Art book
Subjects:
Thek, Paul > Themes, motives > Exhibitions.
Thek, Paul > Criticism and interpretation.
Thek, Paul,
Themes, motives.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Exhibition catalogs.
Summary: 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.
Item Description: 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.
Carrier Form: 304 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780300165951
0300165951
Index Number: N6537
CLC: J110.95-28
Call Number: J110.95-28/T378
Contents: 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.

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