John WesleyOver the course of the past 40 years, painter John Wesley has created a remarkably singular body of work whose subject is no less than the American psyche. While many artists of his generation have used popular images to explore the cultural landscape, Wesley has employed comic strip style and compositional rigor to make deeply personal, often hermetic paintings that strike at the core of our most primal fears, joys and desires. In this first volume ever to collect the entire iconic Bumstead series, which spans from 1974 until the present, we are introduced to several paintings that have never been reproduced before. These are dark and erotic works, sly and witty without ever giving too much away. Linda Norden described them thus in Parkett 62: "The Bumstead paintings--whether detailing scenes of domestic misunderstanding, zooming in on off-camera moments of bafflement or simply scanning empty halls and walls for private memories--are excruciatingly specific representations of the gulfs between feeling and comprehension... smart, funny, startling, irreverently empathetic and often heartbreaking, they are a welcome antidote to more laborious discourse." With an insightful new essay by Robert Hobbs. |
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... Methodists in their interest in Wesley as theologian . For Wesley , however , evangelizing and theologizing were two ... Methodist stereotypes of him — that he was not a theologian's theologian . His chief intellectual interest , and ...
... Methodists in their interest in Wesley as theologian . For Wesley , however , evangelizing and theologizing were two ... Methodist stereotypes of him — that he was not a theologian's theologian . His chief intellectual interest , and ...
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... Methodist stereotype of Wesley that he has never had a complete and scholarly edition of his writings . The only " collected edi- tion " in his own lifetime ( 32 volumes printed by William Pine in Bristol in 1771-74 ) was naturally ...
... Methodist stereotype of Wesley that he has never had a complete and scholarly edition of his writings . The only " collected edi- tion " in his own lifetime ( 32 volumes printed by William Pine in Bristol in 1771-74 ) was naturally ...
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... Methodist people . In this role he undertook to supply them with an abundance of edifying literature which was cheap enough to buy , concise enough to read . This accounts for his predilection for pamphlets and short treatises . It also ...
... Methodist people . In this role he undertook to supply them with an abundance of edifying literature which was cheap enough to buy , concise enough to read . This accounts for his predilection for pamphlets and short treatises . It also ...
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... Methodist Historical Collection , Southern Methodist University ) , who made the project her own . At a more personal level , I have good reason to be deeply grateful for the generous interest in and support of this enterprise by three ...
... Methodist Historical Collection , Southern Methodist University ) , who made the project her own . At a more personal level , I have good reason to be deeply grateful for the generous interest in and support of this enterprise by three ...
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... Methodist Societies , 298 V. Church and Sacraments , 306 Of the Church , 308 On Baptism , 317 The Duty of Constant Communion , 332 Part Three : Theologies in Conflict Introduction to Part Three , 347 I. The Rift with the Moravians ...
... Methodist Societies , 298 V. Church and Sacraments , 306 Of the Church , 308 On Baptism , 317 The Duty of Constant Communion , 332 Part Three : Theologies in Conflict Introduction to Part Three , 347 I. The Rift with the Moravians ...
Contents
V | 41 |
VI | 51 |
VIII | 70 |
IX | 73 |
X | 77 |
XI | 80 |
XII | 82 |
XIII | 84 |
XXXI | 231 |
XXXII | 238 |
XXXIII | 251 |
XXXIV | 252 |
XXXV | 271 |
XXXVI | 283 |
XXXVII | 298 |
XXXVIII | 306 |
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