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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... Nature ever put into a fanatic to make him the successful head and leader of a sect . " There is , however , no such consensus in respect of his place in the history of Protestant thought . His earliest biographers ( John Whitehead ...
... Nature ever put into a fanatic to make him the successful head and leader of a sect . " There is , however , no such consensus in respect of his place in the history of Protestant thought . His earliest biographers ( John Whitehead ...
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... Nature , Design and General Rules of the United Societies ( 1743 ) , and Works , VIII , 269–71 , and A Plain Account of the Peo- ple Called Methodists ( 1748 ) and Works , VIII , 248–68 . 63. From the days of the Holy Club , Charles ...
... Nature , Design and General Rules of the United Societies ( 1743 ) , and Works , VIII , 269–71 , and A Plain Account of the Peo- ple Called Methodists ( 1748 ) and Works , VIII , 248–68 . 63. From the days of the Holy Club , Charles ...
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... Nature of Enthusiasm " ( ibid . , 84-103 ) . In the latter , after a review of various sorts of enthusiasm , Wesley comes down finally upon the worst “ enthusiasm❞ of them all : " fancying you are a Christian when you are not . " 107 ...
... Nature of Enthusiasm " ( ibid . , 84-103 ) . In the latter , after a review of various sorts of enthusiasm , Wesley comes down finally upon the worst “ enthusiasm❞ of them all : " fancying you are a Christian when you are not . " 107 ...
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... Nature , Design and General Rules of the United Societies ( 1743 ) ; A Farther Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion , Pt . III ( 1745 ) ; A Plain Account of the People Called Methodists ( 1749 ) ; A Short History of Methodism ( 1765 ) ...
... Nature , Design and General Rules of the United Societies ( 1743 ) ; A Farther Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion , Pt . III ( 1745 ) ; A Plain Account of the People Called Methodists ( 1749 ) ; A Short History of Methodism ( 1765 ) ...
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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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