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Andrew Wyeth: Looking Out, Looking in

Andrew Wyeth: Looking Out, Looking in book

Andrew Wyeth: Looking Out, Looking in

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One of Andrew Wyeth's most important paintings, Wind from the Sea, a recent gift to the National Gallery of Art, is also the artist's first full realization of the window as a recurring subject in his art. Wyeth returned to windows over the next sixty years, producing more than 250 works that explore both the formal and conceptual richness of the subject. Spare, elegant and abstract, these paintings are free of the narrative element inevitably associated with Wyeth's better-known figural compositions. In 2014 the Gallery will present an exhibition of a select group of these deceptively 'realistic' works, window paintings that are in truth skilfully manipulated constructions engaged with the visual complexities posed by the transparency, beauty and formal structure of windows. In its exclusive focus on paintings without human subjects, this catalogue will offer a new approach to Wyeth's work, being the first time that his non-figural compositions have been published as a group. The authors explore Wyeth's fascination with windows - their formal structure and metaphorical complexity. In essays that address links with the poetry of Robert Frost and the paintings of Edward Hopper, Charles Sheeler and Franz Kline, the authors consider Wyeth's statement that he was, in truth, an 'abstract' painter.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
216
Release Date:
2014-05-01
Publication Date:
2014-05-31
Publisher:
NATL GALLERY OF ART WASHINGTON
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1938922190
ISBN13:
9781938922190
Weight:
1726 g
Height:
258 cm
Width:
287 cm
Thickness:
30 cm
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