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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... perfect " as a translation of the Latin per- fectio . In medieval Latin perfectus meant " faultless " 108 — unimprovable ! That any human state can be perfect in this sense had rightly been denied 105. See below , pp . 425-91 . 104. See ...
... perfect " as a translation of the Latin per- fectio . In medieval Latin perfectus meant " faultless " 108 — unimprovable ! That any human state can be perfect in this sense had rightly been denied 105. See below , pp . 425-91 . 104. See ...
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... Perfect love , " as Wesley un- derstood it , is the conscious certainty , in a present moment , of the full- ness of one's love for God and neighbor , as this love has been initiated and fulfilled by God's gifts of faith , hope and love ...
... Perfect love , " as Wesley un- derstood it , is the conscious certainty , in a present moment , of the full- ness of one's love for God and neighbor , as this love has been initiated and fulfilled by God's gifts of faith , hope and love ...
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... perfect love is deferred until the " moment of death " ( articulus mortis ) . In the face of death a man is forced into a mood of " seriousness , " if he is ever likely to be . It was , therefore , neither accidental nor morbid that ...
... perfect love is deferred until the " moment of death " ( articulus mortis ) . In the face of death a man is forced into a mood of " seriousness , " if he is ever likely to be . It was , therefore , neither accidental nor morbid that ...
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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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