Jamie Wyeth: unsettled /
"A major monograph of the American realist artist, descendant of one of America's most revered artistic families, and painter of dark and uneasy subjects. This book traces a persistent vein of intriguing, often disconcerting, imagery over the career of renowned artist Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946)...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY : Chadds Ford, PA :
Rizzoli Electa ; Brandywine Museum of Art,
2024.
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| Summary: | "A major monograph of the American realist artist, descendant of one of America's most revered artistic families, and painter of dark and uneasy subjects. This book traces a persistent vein of intriguing, often disconcerting, imagery over the career of renowned artist Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946), famous for his hyperrealist paintings of farm animals and Maine lighthouses. The focus in this volume is on the chilling thread that runs through his work, present but not overwhelming, and ever-evolving with his style and subjects. Whether he is introducing curious characters or surveying strange landscapes, Wyeth is at home with uneasy subjects and a master of the unsettled mood. Like his father, Andrew Wyeth, and grandfather N. C. Wyeth before him, Jamie Wyeth splits his time between the Brandywine River Valley of Pennsylvania and Delaware and the mid-coast of Maine. In these two locales Wyeth has passed through many "obsessions," as he calls his favored subjects: farm tools brimming with the potential for violence, eccentric portraits and unnerving figure studies, haunted places, and possessed plants and animals. In addition to the main essay, contributors explore the creation of similarly unsettling moods in film, dance, sound artistry, and classical music" -- |
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| Item Description: | Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name, held at Brandywine Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA, March 16-June 9, 2024; Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME, July 4-September 29, 2024; Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC, November 27, 2024-February 16, 2025; Dayton Art Institute, OH, March 15-June 8, 2025; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, July 2-October 4, 2025. |
| Physical Description: | 192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780847899562 084789956X |