{"product_id":"andrew-wyeth-life-and-death-hardcover","title":"Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrew Wyeth\u003c\/b\u003e (Artist), \u003cb\u003eTanya Sheehan\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJacqueline Terrassa\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePresenting recently rediscovered drawings, \u003ci\u003eLife and Death\u003c\/i\u003e explores what it means for an artist to picture their own death, in both the context of Wyeth's late career and contemporary American art\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume presents for the first time a recently rediscovered series of pencil drawings from the early 1990s, through which Wyeth imagined his own funeral. Chapters by leading art historians explore the significance of picturing one's own death in both the context of Wyeth's late career and contemporary American art. The book connects the funeral series to Wyeth's decades-long engagement with death as an artistic subject in painting, his relationships with the models depicted, and his use of drawing as an expressive and exploratory medium. It further inserts Wyeth's work into a larger conversation about mortality and self-portraiture that developed in American art since the 1960s, and includes works by Duane Michals, Andy Warhol, David Wojnarowicz, George Tooker, Janaina Tschäpe and Mario Moore. While his contemporaries posed a variety of existential questions in picturing their own passing, those that interrogate the universality of death as a human experience have become especially urgent in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and the national reckoning with racial inequality that emerged in 2020. \u003ci\u003eAndrew Wyeth: Life and Death\u003c\/i\u003e thus addresses ideas about loss, grief, vulnerability and (im)mortality that pervade the current moment.\u003cbr\u003eAmerican painter \u003cb\u003eAndrew Wyeth\u003c\/b\u003e (1917-2009) lived his entire life in his birthplace of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and his summer home in mid-coast Maine. His seven-decade career was spent painting the land and people that he knew and cared about. Renowned for his tempera painting \u003ci\u003eChristina's World\u003c\/i\u003e (1948), Wyeth navigated between artistic representation and abstraction in a highly personal way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 10.39 x 8.35 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 07, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766414410016,"sku":"9781636810348","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/28dcb8cf354a89b7808edb27cf503086.webp?v=1780292256","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/andrew-wyeth-life-and-death-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}