General & Miscellaneous American Art, Pop/Op Art & the 1960s, Art of the 1980s and 1990s

Tom Wesselmann

Name: Tom Wesselmann
Author: Tom Wesselmann, Slim Stealingworth
ISBN: 9780896590724

by Tom Wesselmann, Slim Stealingworth

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Overview

Famous for his series of "Great American Nudes" that he began exhibiting in the early sixties, Tom Wesselmann, born in Cincinnati in 1931, has always been considered the most elegant and "European" of American Pop artists. Together with many of his latest works (2002-2003), this volume contains recent studies and maquettes of smaller dimensions. The lavish introductory section, dedicated to the life and works of the artist, gives further insight into a historic master of Pop Art who is still immensely popular today.

About the Author, Tom Wesselmann, Slim Stealingworth

Tom Wesselmann was born in 1931 in Cincinnati, Ohio. As an art student at New York's Cooper Union, Wesselman was a devotee of the Abstract Expressionists Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. Realizing that Ab Ex had already been taken to its apex, Wesselman turned far away, to the artifacts of the everyday world, to Pop. He lives in New York.

Art critic Danilo Eccher was director of the Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea in Trento from 1989 to 1995, and the Galleria diArte Moderna in Bologna from 1996 to 2000. He has edited several titles including Gilbert & George and Boltanski.