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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John Wesley A. C. Outler. Preface John Wesley's eminence is secure - as evangelist , reformer , practical genius . Few men in the eighteenth century have left a mark so clear and ineffaceable . Even his dispraisers , like Bishop ...
John Wesley A. C. Outler. Preface John Wesley's eminence is secure - as evangelist , reformer , practical genius . Few men in the eighteenth century have left a mark so clear and ineffaceable . Even his dispraisers , like Bishop ...
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... Wesley's main ideas in their scope and depth , without serious omission or imbalance . It belongs to the Methodist stereotype of Wesley that he has never had a complete and scholarly edition of his writings . The only " collected edi ...
... Wesley's main ideas in their scope and depth , without serious omission or imbalance . It belongs to the Methodist stereotype of Wesley that he has never had a complete and scholarly edition of his writings . The only " collected edi ...
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... Wesley's printers were notoriously careless , and Wesley himself , much too busy for rigorous proofreading . Besides , the general styles of orthography , punctuation and emphasis were undergoing a major mutation during Wesley's ...
... Wesley's printers were notoriously careless , and Wesley himself , much too busy for rigorous proofreading . Besides , the general styles of orthography , punctuation and emphasis were undergoing a major mutation during Wesley's ...
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John Wesley A. C. Outler. however , precision is hard to come by , for Wesley was so fully steeped in the Biblical ... Wesley's work as a theologian : leader of the Revival , theological teacher in the Church of England , disputant in ...
John Wesley A. C. Outler. however , precision is hard to come by , for Wesley was so fully steeped in the Biblical ... Wesley's work as a theologian : leader of the Revival , theological teacher in the Church of England , disputant in ...
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... Wesley's reactions to Smith's appraisals of him . From the outset it is clear that Smith is convinced that Wesley's doctrines and temperament are reciprocals : I dare say you mean no harm ; yet suffer me to say frankly , I think you ...
... Wesley's reactions to Smith's appraisals of him . From the outset it is clear that Smith is convinced that Wesley's doctrines and temperament are reciprocals : I dare say you mean no harm ; yet suffer me to say frankly , I think you ...
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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