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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... John Smith was comparatively well informed about Wesley and the Methodists , that he was a responsible churchman and a good theologian — and that Wesley took him seriously ! prove of lay preachers.2 " Well , if they preach 3 I.
... John Smith was comparatively well informed about Wesley and the Methodists , that he was a responsible churchman and a good theologian — and that Wesley took him seriously ! prove of lay preachers.2 " Well , if they preach 3 I.
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... Methodist Archives , Epworth House , London . For Samuel Wesley's alliance with Henry Sacheverell , cf. John Wesley , A Concise History of England ( 1776 ) , IV , 72–76 . 12. Dr. Samuel Annesley ( 1620 ? -1696 ) . Cf. his sermons in The ...
... Methodist Archives , Epworth House , London . For Samuel Wesley's alliance with Henry Sacheverell , cf. John Wesley , A Concise History of England ( 1776 ) , IV , 72–76 . 12. Dr. Samuel Annesley ( 1620 ? -1696 ) . Cf. his sermons in The ...
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... Methodists , Supererogation Men , En- thusiasts . Methodist was the label that stuck fastest . Wesley disliked it , 23 but with characteristic aplomb , he accepted it as a badge of honor and proceeded to define " the character of a ...
... Methodists , Supererogation Men , En- thusiasts . Methodist was the label that stuck fastest . Wesley disliked it , 23 but with characteristic aplomb , he accepted it as a badge of honor and proceeded to define " the character of a ...
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... Methodists " ! With the help of one of his fellow " Methodists , " John Clayton , who was a competent patristics scholar , Wesley began the study of ancient Christian literature , newly available in editions produced in the patristics ...
... Methodists " ! With the help of one of his fellow " Methodists , " John Clayton , who was a competent patristics scholar , Wesley began the study of ancient Christian literature , newly available in editions produced in the patristics ...
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... Methodists , and for the sake of propagating this chiefly he appears to have raised us up " ( Letters , VIII , 238 ) . 30. Cf. Whitehead , Life , I , 410-11 ; Letters , VI , 128 . 31. Letters , I , 166–78 . Cf. Journal , I , 109 ; but ...
... Methodists , and for the sake of propagating this chiefly he appears to have raised us up " ( Letters , VIII , 238 ) . 30. Cf. Whitehead , Life , I , 410-11 ; Letters , VI , 128 . 31. Letters , I , 166–78 . Cf. Journal , I , 109 ; but ...
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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