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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Whitney Museum of American Art ,
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Publisher Address: | New York : |
Publication Dates: |
2011. ©2010 |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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A Whitney Museum of American Art book
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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. |