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Rethinking Andrew Wyeth (Hardcover)
David Cateforis; Contributions by Wanda Corn, Alexander Nemerov, Joyce Hill Stoner, Randall C. Griffin, …
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Andrew Wyeth is one of the best loved and most widely recognized
artists in American history, yet for much of his career he was
reviled by the art world's critical elite. Rethinking Andrew Wyeth
reevaluates Wyeth and his place in American art, trying to
reconcile these two opposing images of the man and his work. In
addition to surveying the American critical reception of Wyeth's
art over the seven decades of his career, David Cateforis brings
together a collection of essays featuring new critical and
scholarly responses to the artist. Donald Kuspit's compelling
psycho-philosophical interpretation of Wyeth exemplifies the
possibility of new approaches to understanding his work that move
beyond the Wyeth "curse," as do those of the other contributors to
this volume - from the close analysis of Wyeth's technical means
offered by Joyce Hill Stoner, to the adventuresome interpretive
readings of individual Wyeth paintings advanced by Alexander
Nemerov and Randall C. Griffin, the considerations of Wyeth's
critical reception in historical context offered by Wanda M. Corn
and Katie Robinson Edwards, and the connections of Wyeth to other
canonical artists such as Francine Weiss' comparison of him to
Robert Frost and Patricia Junker's linkage of Wyeth and Marcel
Duchamp. Rethinking Andrew Wyeth includes an appendix with data
from visitor surveys conducted at the Wyeth retrospectives in San
Francisco in 1973 and Philadelphia in 2006. Illustrated throughout
with both iconic and lesser-known examples of Wyeth's work, this
book will appeal to academic, museum, and popular audiences seeking
a deeper understanding and appreciation of Andrew Wyeth's art
through its critical reception and interpretation. Edited by David
Cateforis, with essays by David Cateforis, Wanda M. Corn, Katie
Robinson Edwards, Randall C. Griffin, Patricia Junker, Donald
Kuspit, Alexander Nemerov, Joyce Hill Stoner, and Francine Weiss.
This volume's release coincides with an exhibition at the National
Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 2014, Andrew Wyeth: Looking
Out, Looking In.
"Break Boundary" refers to the transformative point at which any
system suddenly and irrevocably changes from its original state
into something new. Coined by Kenneth E. Boulding in 1963, the term
serves as the underlying metaphor for the photographs of Jenee
Mateer. In her original works of art, the horizon that divides
land, water, and sky shifts and multiplies producing bands of
varied colors and luminosity that transform the natural landscape
into imaginative "waterscapes" and challenge our understanding of
photography. Reminiscent of the abstract paintings of Mark Rothko
and the photographic seascapes of Hiroshi Sugimoto and New Mexican
landscapes of Edward Weston, Mateer's images are layered
photographs of the natural world assembled to suggest imaginary
places where light, water, land and sky coalesce into rhythmic
patterns of shimmering opalescence or luscious color. Break
Boundary features 34 of Mateer's waterscapes and also includes her
opening essay about the work and two poems by the artist, "The
World Is Water" and "The Sky Is Lemonlime," that separate the first
series of images from the second series and offer a deeper look
into the artist's thoughts about the work. In the concluding essay
by Francine Weiss, curator of the Newport Art Museum, Weiss writes:
"From surface to self, Jenee Mateer takes the viewer on a journey
from one psychological and spiritual state to another. In Mateer's
"waterscapes," the conventional or anticipated boundaries between
land, water, and sky begin to vanish; horizons multiply and join;
and the break boundary emerges.
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