"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Wayne Thiebaud: 1958/1968, organized and presented by the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, January 16/May 14, 2018"--Copyright page. Includes bibliographical references and index. "Wayne Thiebaud: 1958/1968" : January 16-May 13, 2018, the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis, California, United States.
Contents:
Holding opposites in tension : the genius of Wayne Thiebaud / Rachel Teagle -- Wayne Thiebaud's early landscapes : picturing / Gravity Margaretta Lovell -- Exaggerations of the real : Wayne Thiebaud and Joseph Heller / Alexander Nemerov -- Plates with entries / by Francesca Wilmott -- Chronology / Arielle Hardy -- Is a Lollipop tree worth painting? / Wayne Thiebaud.
Summary:
Wayne Thiebaud: 1958-1968 examines Thiebaud's ongoing impact on contemporary art through in-depth analysis of the paintings and drawings made at the launch of his career, at a seminal moment when the art world was moving beyond Abstract Expressionism and redefining itself. By questioning Thiebaud's relationship to Pop art, his self-imposed distance from the movement, and the popular urge to affiliate him with it, Teagle explores the role of his painting in the traffic of images at the end of the twentieth century. Organized in close cooperation with the artist, this is the first study of the emergence of Thiebaud's mature style and the only museum exhibition to date to delve into a specific period of his production, a time that coincides with the start of his teaching career at University of California at Davis. Thiebaud's art, like that of the celebrated Pop artists with whom he shared early exhibitions, is ripe for critical reappraisal. The "soft" nature of Thiebaud's famous subjects, his creamy pies and dripping ice creams, positioned his art as fodder for social-political review on occasion, but rarely for serious historical analysis. Since the beginning of his career Thiebaud reminded critics of his formal interests and his deep affiliation with the history of painting. This exhibition takes as its starting point an understanding of Thiebaud's painterly language-its historical sources and contemporary affiliations.
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