Four Chicago-based artists, Judy Ledgerwood, Jim Lutes, Kay Rosen and Kevin Wolff, propose a variety of answers, exits and witty retorts to the often asked, and purportedly existential, question: why paint? Why not? Between the large-scale romantic landscapes of Ledgerwood, Rosen's carefully crafted word games, Lutes' calligraphic jumbles and the wily appendages of Wolff, painting has rarely seemed as varied and relevant. Art critic David Pagel looks at the crises in painting within the pretext of Modernism's decline and ...
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Four Chicago-based artists, Judy Ledgerwood, Jim Lutes, Kay Rosen and Kevin Wolff, propose a variety of answers, exits and witty retorts to the often asked, and purportedly existential, question: why paint? Why not? Between the large-scale romantic landscapes of Ledgerwood, Rosen's carefully crafted word games, Lutes' calligraphic jumbles and the wily appendages of Wolff, painting has rarely seemed as varied and relevant. Art critic David Pagel looks at the crises in painting within the pretext of Modernism's decline and the ascension of Postmodernist pluralism and search for narratives. Pagel asserts that the question of how and why to paint always arrives either too late or too early, ever missing the crime in action, but there to reap the benefits of the deed.
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Add this copy of Why Paint? Judy Ledgerwood, Jim Lutes, Kay Rosen, Kevin to cart. $32.00, very good condition, Sold by Jeff Hirsch Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Wadsworth, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1992 by The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago.
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1992, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
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Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
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1992
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English
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First edition. Softcover. [24 pages. ] Exhibition catalog for a group show that ran March 22 through April 26, 1992. Features an essay by David Pagel. Includes 1 illustration and information about these artists: Judy Ledgerwood, Jim Lutes, Kay Rosen, Kevin Wolff. A clean very near fine copy in stapled wrappers.
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Edition:
1992, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
