Theodore Waddell: Hallowed Absurdities: Mixed Media Sculpture [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Waddell, Theodore

Verlag: Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana, 2013

Beschreibung

As new condition textured color softcover wraps with silver front cover and spine lettering. Includes Preliminary Page Quote by Chief Seattle, 1854; Special Thanks by Theodore Waddell; Foreword by Robyn G. Peterson; An Introduction to Hallowed Absurdities by Bob Durden; Acknowledgments; Theodore Waddell Resume; and Exhibition Checklist. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana Exhibition September 12, 2013 - January 5, 2014. "It is fitting that Hallowed Absurdities should premiere at The Yellowstone Art Museum - and organization that has served as much as an epicenter for Theodore Waddell's career as it has as a repository for many of his iconic and potent paintings inspired by the revered spaces and fauna found in the American West. To glean the artist's vision of the vast landscape, one may look to Waddell's painting Montana, a cherished object in the museum's collection. The scale of the work combined with the artist's reckoning of the subject is in keeping with the magnitude of Montana's "big sky" and expansive borders. Working far from the cultural centers that have been meccas for notable modern and contemporary artists, Waddell purposefully elected to return to Montana after completing his service in the Army and his studies in New York and Detroit. He has remained a resident of the West where he honors the past and present lifestyles of this sparsely-populated portion of the Unites States. As a result of his commitment to an undeniable artistic vision tied to this place, Waddell's oevre has become an identifiable benchmark of twentieth and twenty-first-century American painting of the West.Though this catalog cannot replace the experience of witnessing these objects in person, it documents an aspect of the artist's discipline that will more fully facilitate an understanding of Theodore Waddell's overarching artistic concerns. The conversation that he strives to invoke with these creations will not necessarily provide the answers to the complex question he raises, but it may stir one's own memories and attitudes about living and dying with dignity and respect, coupled with a wink and a nod to the absurdities that pave the distance between those two points." - excerpt from An Introduction to Hallowed Absurdities by Bob Durden, Senior Curator, Yellowstone Art Museum. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 003502

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Theodore Waddell: Hallowed Absurdities: ...

Verlag: Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana

Erscheinungsdatum: 2013

Einband: Soft cover

Illustrator: Bourret, James, James Bourret Fine Art Photography (photography)

Zustand: As New

Auflage: 1st Edition