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Walter Robinson - Paintings and Other Indulgences
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Walter Robinson - Paintings and Other Indulgences

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By 1980 Walter Robinson (born 1950) had established himself as a critic for Art in America and member of the New York artists’ collective Collaborative Projects. He became notable for paintings of square-jawed detective-hero types and swooning vixens based on pulp romance covers. Employing what critic Carlo McCormick termed a devious sense of irony done with incredible sincerity, he examined painting’s relationship to mass-culture images of desire, mining lurid illustrations from the 1940s and 50s and rerepresenting them in a style culled from how to paint books. Robinson’s subsequent paintings of beer cans and bottles, pharmaceuticals, fast-food burgers, Lands’ End models and online erotic selfies continue to address our indulgence of longing and excess in a media-saturated world. Walter Robinson: Paintings and Other Indulgences is the first monograph on Robinson, with photographs of 140 paintings spanning his 35-year career.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Illinois State University, University Galleries
Country
United States
Date
26 January 2016
Pages
144
ISBN
9780945558415

By 1980 Walter Robinson (born 1950) had established himself as a critic for Art in America and member of the New York artists’ collective Collaborative Projects. He became notable for paintings of square-jawed detective-hero types and swooning vixens based on pulp romance covers. Employing what critic Carlo McCormick termed a devious sense of irony done with incredible sincerity, he examined painting’s relationship to mass-culture images of desire, mining lurid illustrations from the 1940s and 50s and rerepresenting them in a style culled from how to paint books. Robinson’s subsequent paintings of beer cans and bottles, pharmaceuticals, fast-food burgers, Lands’ End models and online erotic selfies continue to address our indulgence of longing and excess in a media-saturated world. Walter Robinson: Paintings and Other Indulgences is the first monograph on Robinson, with photographs of 140 paintings spanning his 35-year career.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Illinois State University, University Galleries
Country
United States
Date
26 January 2016
Pages
144
ISBN
9780945558415