Published on the occasion of the exhibition Tom Wesselmann: La Promesse du Bonheur , held at the Villa Paloma, Nouveau Mus???e National de Monaco, this catalogue is a critical overview of a key American pop artist and an important opportunity to analyze specific aspects of his work: Victorian and post-Victorian sexuality, female agency, postwar economic abundance, beauty, the erotics of anticipation, the politics of the gaze and strategies of indeterminacy. Every aspect of the book's design, including its more than 170 ...
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Published on the occasion of the exhibition Tom Wesselmann: La Promesse du Bonheur , held at the Villa Paloma, Nouveau Mus???e National de Monaco, this catalogue is a critical overview of a key American pop artist and an important opportunity to analyze specific aspects of his work: Victorian and post-Victorian sexuality, female agency, postwar economic abundance, beauty, the erotics of anticipation, the politics of the gaze and strategies of indeterminacy. Every aspect of the book's design, including its more than 170 color illustrations, is conceived to reflect on the artist's haptic, indexical painterly approach and his oversize scale system.
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First Paperback Edition. Large 4to. pp 223. Paperback. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Text in French and English. The exhibition Tom Wesselmann, La Promesse du Bonheur designed by Chris Sharp and with the scientific coordination of Cristiano Raimondi presented on the three floors of the Villa Paloma in Monaco from June 29, 2018 to January 6, 2019 brings together twenty-five works-paintings, drawings, and sculptures-made between 1963 and 1993. ISBN: 8867493442 Fine.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Oversized. PAPERBACK.