The extensive oeuvre of the American painter Carroll Dunham has infused the discussion about representation versus abstraction with new life, at the same time pointing to a number of directions in 20th-century painting such as surrealism, action painting, abstract painting and pop art. His unusual, original colour compositions and independent use of forms and materials have had a significant influence on artists like Fred Tomaselli and Mathew Ritchie. In Dunham's works, pictorial elements reminiscent of cartoons became ...
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The extensive oeuvre of the American painter Carroll Dunham has infused the discussion about representation versus abstraction with new life, at the same time pointing to a number of directions in 20th-century painting such as surrealism, action painting, abstract painting and pop art. His unusual, original colour compositions and independent use of forms and materials have had a significant influence on artists like Fred Tomaselli and Mathew Ritchie. In Dunham's works, pictorial elements reminiscent of cartoons became recognizable details in his work as early as the beginning of the eighties. Later, Dunham turned to larger formats, painting bodily shapes; repulsive-looking, hairy and resembling tumours, teeth or lips, in Expressionist colours and with an impressive painterly quality. More recently, his pictures have become distinctly more figurative and show caricature-like male and female figures. Buildings, planets and boats also feature in Dunham's pictures. This text looks at the range of his work.
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Fine Condition. Book 160 pp., 89 illustrations 70 in color. Softcover catalogue, bound with stiff pictorial paper covers. Virtually new condition with tight binding, uncreased spine, and crisp, clean pageblock with no interior writing and the appearance of having never been opened. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York NY October 31, 2002-February 2, 2003 and White Cube, London March 21-April 19, 2003.
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New. Size: 11x9x0; Brand new. Clean, unmarked pages. Fine binding and cover. Softcover. 160 p. : ill.; 30 cm. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
