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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... thought . His earliest biographers ( John Whitehead , Henry Moore , Luke Tyerman ) combined to shape a common image which still persists : the sometime Oxford don turned pietist whose most significant achievement was the founding and ...
... thought . His earliest biographers ( John Whitehead , Henry Moore , Luke Tyerman ) combined to shape a common image which still persists : the sometime Oxford don turned pietist whose most significant achievement was the founding and ...
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... thought was the Anglican theological literature in which he had steeped himself at Oxford and in Georgia . Its deeper wellspring was the Bible and its interpretation by the ancient Fathers of the Church . From his great mentors in piety ...
... thought was the Anglican theological literature in which he had steeped himself at Oxford and in Georgia . Its deeper wellspring was the Bible and its interpretation by the ancient Fathers of the Church . From his great mentors in piety ...
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... Thought is designed to exhibit Wesley as theologian by providing a representative collection of his writ- ings , together with what are intended as useful introductions and notes for a general reader's guidance . The principles of ...
... Thought is designed to exhibit Wesley as theologian by providing a representative collection of his writ- ings , together with what are intended as useful introductions and notes for a general reader's guidance . The principles of ...
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... Thought , he undertakes to referee these variations and to " modernize " the orthography and punctuation of the originals . It was Wesley's habit to punctuate his texts chiefly for the benefit of those who would read them aloud . Thus ...
... Thought , he undertakes to referee these variations and to " modernize " the orthography and punctuation of the originals . It was Wesley's habit to punctuate his texts chiefly for the benefit of those who would read them aloud . Thus ...
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... thought nothing of citing various translations ( including his own ) , and he regularly quoted the Psalms from the Psalter in the Book of Common Prayer . Wesley was a prolific author , editor and publisher . But in his literary work ...
... thought nothing of citing various translations ( including his own ) , and he regularly quoted the Psalms from the Psalter in the Book of Common Prayer . Wesley was a prolific author , editor and publisher . But in his literary work ...
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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