Wayne Thiebaud - Updated Edition - John Yau

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Résumé :
Wayne Thiebaud is one of the world's most popular and respected painters. Born in two, he has lived for most of his life in Sacramento, although he spent much of his youth with his family in Long Beach and remains sentimentally attached to Southern California, especially Laguna Beach. Spanning the length of his career from the ry5os to the present, the book has been made in close collaboration with the artist. Thiebaud selected the works himself, making the book an act of autobiography in a sense. At age too, he looks back over his life and his work, rich with breakthroughs in painting and masterful individuality. With more than 250 illustrations, the book covers Thiebaud's career as a painter, draftsman, and printmaker. It features many of the still fifes of pies, cakes, desserts, candles, and other objects - lusciously painted, brightly colored, perfectly composed, and gently comic - for which he is best known. Such works made his name in 96a, when an exhibition of them at the Allen Stone Gallery in New York attracted rave reviews and, to the discomfort of the artist himself, led critics to see him as part of the Pop Art movement. The other artistic genres that he has cultivated most avidly since then are landscape and cityscape, with special interests in the Sacramento River valley and San Francisco. Essays by a wide range of writers give a new perspective on his life and work.

Biographie:
Kenneth Baker has been the resident art critic at the San Francisco Chronicle since 1983. Nicholas Fox Weber is a cultural historian and executive director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. Karen Wilkin is an independent curator and art critic based in New York. John Yau is an American poet and critic who lives in New York.