Life Lessons: Art of Jerome Witkin - Rilegato

Chayat, Sherry

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ISBN 10: 0815626177 ISBN 13: 9780815626176

Casa editrice: Syracuse University Press, 1994

Riassunto

As a master of realism, Jerome Witkin illustrates in his art the moral plight of everyday lives. His most complex and critically acclaimed works - intense, often disturbing scenes of the Holocaust - have earned him a growing international audience. Through the "virtues of descriptive vividness and accuracy, " as Kenneth Baker writes in his Foreword, Sherry Chayat elucidates Witkin's success in almost single-handedly returning to the realm of painting those subjects that are powerfully universal as well as intensely personal. Witkin believes that this is his domain as a painter, as it was for artists like Goya and Eakins. Mortal Sin: In the Confession of J. Robert Oppenheimer; Death as an Usher: Berlin, 1933; Subway: A Marriage; The Screams of Kitty Genovese - Witkin's huge and often multipaneled canvases deal with human dilemmas and current societal issues, such as the homeless, AIDS, and drugs. His art demonstrates that we bear a moral responsibility for the pain suffered by others. "I'm not just a painter, " Witkin states. "I'm a person looking at my century. We must get back to someplace where we can feel again, where we have value, a sense of the future."

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Book by Chayat Sherry

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• Editore: Syracuse University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0815626177
• ISBN 13: 9780815626176
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 160