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Paul Thek : Artist's Artist by Peter Weibel (2009, Hardcover)
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©1965 Photograph by Peter Hujar, courtesy Pace McGill Gallery NYC, Fraenkel San Francisco, Peter Hujar Archive, LLC. Portrait of Peter Hujar, c.1963Photo: The estate of George Paul Thek, Courtesy Alexander and Bonin, New York.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherMIT Press
ISBN-100262012545
ISBN-139780262012546
eBay Product ID (ePID)66018038
Product Key Features
Number of Pages550 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NamePaul Thek : Artist's Artist
SubjectConceptual, Individual Artists / General, History / Contemporary (1945-), Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, American / General
Publication Year2009
TypeTextbook
AuthorPeter Weibel
Subject AreaArt
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.9 in
Item Weight112.8 Oz
Item Length11.1 in
Item Width8.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2008-038158
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"The enormous Paul Thek: Artist's Artistis rich with images of Thek's wildly varied work from the '50s to the '80s, and reveals how Thek the person sometimes interfered with Thek the artist." - BOMB Magazine
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal709.2
SynopsisPaul Thek occupied a place between high art and low art, between the epic and the everyday. During his brief life (1933-1988), he went against the grain of art world trends, humanizing the institutional spaces of art with the force of his humor, spirituality, and character. Twenty years after Thek's death from AIDS, we can now recognize his influence on contemporary artists ranging from Vito Acconci and Bruce Nauman to Matthew Barney, Mike Kelley, and Paul McCarthy, as well as Kai Althoff, Jonathan Meese, and Thomas Hirschhorn. This book brings together more than 300 of Thek's works--many of which are published here for the first time--to offer the most comprehensive display of his work yet seen. The book, which accompanies an exhibition at ZKM ? Museum of Contemporary Art presenting Thek's work in dialogue with contemporary art by young artists, includes painting, sculpture, drawing, and installation work, as well as photographs documenting the room-size environments into which Thek incorporated elements from art, literature, theater, and religion. These works chart Thek's journey from legendary outsider to foundational figure in contemporary art. In their antiheroic diversity, Thek's works embody the art revolution of the 1960s; indeed, Susan Sontag dedicated her classic Against Interpretation to him. Thek's treatment of the body in such works as "Technological Reliquaries," with their castings and replicas of human body parts, tissue, and bones, both evoke the aura of Christian relics and anticipate the work of Damien Hirst. The book, with more than 500 images (300 in color) and nineteen essays by art historians, curators, collectors, and artists, investigates Thek's work on its own terms, and as a starting point for understanding the work of the many younger artists Thek has influenced.Essays byJean-Christophe Ammann, Margrit Brehm, Bazon Brock, Suzanne Delehanty, Harald Falckenberg, Marietta Franke, Stefan Germer, Kim Gordon, Roland Groenenboom, Axel Heil, Gregor Jansen, Mike Kelley, John Miller, Susanne Neubauer, Kenny Schachter, Harald Szeemann, Annette Tietenberg, Peter Weibel, Ann Wilson, Images of more than 300 works by this groundbreaking artist document his journey from legendary outsider to central figure in many contemporary art movements.
LC Classification NumberN6537.T47P38 2009
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