John WesleyOxford University Press, USA, 1964 - 516 pages Over 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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... possible with the available data to establish a positive identification of " John Smith . " Moore ( who hints that he had the story from Wesley ) reports that " Smith " was an " archbishop " ( cf. Life , II , 61 ) . If so , there would ...
... possible with the available data to establish a positive identification of " John Smith . " Moore ( who hints that he had the story from Wesley ) reports that " Smith " was an " archbishop " ( cf. Life , II , 61 ) . If so , there would ...
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... possible to do this and go no further ) would profit me nothing unless I gave my heart , yea , all my heart to him . I saw that " simplicity of intention and purity of affection , " one design in all we speak or do and one desire ruling ...
... possible to do this and go no further ) would profit me nothing unless I gave my heart , yea , all my heart to him . I saw that " simplicity of intention and purity of affection , " one design in all we speak or do and one desire ruling ...
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... without convincing evidence ; Bowmer thinks an earlier date is possible , but leaves it as " an open question . " Judging by context , however , the Savannah episode ... say they are Protestants . But as for you 12 INTRODUCTION.
... without convincing evidence ; Bowmer thinks an earlier date is possible , but leaves it as " an open question . " Judging by context , however , the Savannah episode ... say they are Protestants . But as for you 12 INTRODUCTION.
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... possible . He landed back in England , February 1 , 1738 , sadly discredited and painfully uncertain of his faith and his future . For a dozen years he had been toiling up the path to perfection , striving by the best models he knew to ...
... possible . He landed back in England , February 1 , 1738 , sadly discredited and painfully uncertain of his faith and his future . For a dozen years he had been toiling up the path to perfection , striving by the best models he knew to ...
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... possible from their leader.86 The consequences of this dilemma had far - reaching effects in the subsequent development of American Methodism . American independence weakened Wesley's control over the American Methodists and at the same ...
... possible from their leader.86 The consequences of this dilemma had far - reaching effects in the subsequent development of American Methodism . American independence weakened Wesley's control over the American Methodists and at the same ...
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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