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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... least one reason why the common people heard him gladly and responded to him as one of their own . The other side of the same profile , however , poses a very different picture — anything but commonplace . From this angle he appears as ...
... least one reason why the common people heard him gladly and responded to him as one of their own . The other side of the same profile , however , poses a very different picture — anything but commonplace . From this angle he appears as ...
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... least , they make rather tedious reading . But they served their purpose in their time — which was more to lift the morale of his own people under the poundings of disapproval and the seductions of error than to silence or convert their ...
... least , they make rather tedious reading . But they served their purpose in their time — which was more to lift the morale of his own people under the poundings of disapproval and the seductions of error than to silence or convert their ...
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... least , Wesley's own unwearied and unanxious diligence , his stress upon the serene strenu- ousness of the Christian life . The essence of faith , whether at the threshold or in its fullness , has always to do with man's immediate and ...
... least , Wesley's own unwearied and unanxious diligence , his stress upon the serene strenu- ousness of the Christian life . The essence of faith , whether at the threshold or in its fullness , has always to do with man's immediate and ...
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... least a possibility seemed to Wesley to imply that deliberate sin is inevitable and unavoidable -- which would be to say that man was made to sin and that his sinful disposition is invinci- ble . But this effectively impugns God's ...
... least a possibility seemed to Wesley to imply that deliberate sin is inevitable and unavoidable -- which would be to say that man was made to sin and that his sinful disposition is invinci- ble . But this effectively impugns God's ...
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... least original elements in his theology belong together . His doctrine of grace as preventing , co - operant and sanctifying is hardly to be found , in the form he developed it , anywhere else in the body of An- glican divinity . It is ...
... least original elements in his theology belong together . His doctrine of grace as preventing , co - operant and sanctifying is hardly to be found , in the form he developed it , anywhere else in the body of An- glican divinity . It is ...
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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