Published on the occasion of the first survey of Wool's work at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art from July to October 1998, this book features all of this artist's work to date. Drawn from sources in everyday or vernacular culture, Wool's imagery has ranged from the rolled "wallpaper" images of flowers, vines, or dots, to using rubber-stamps, stencils, or silkscreens. Working with language as image since the late 1980s, Wool has restructured words ("prankster", "adversary", "comedian", "paranoic", "riot", "fool") ...
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Published on the occasion of the first survey of Wool's work at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art from July to October 1998, this book features all of this artist's work to date. Drawn from sources in everyday or vernacular culture, Wool's imagery has ranged from the rolled "wallpaper" images of flowers, vines, or dots, to using rubber-stamps, stencils, or silkscreens. Working with language as image since the late 1980s, Wool has restructured words ("prankster", "adversary", "comedian", "paranoic", "riot", "fool") or common phrases ("cats in the bag", "the show is over", "run dog run") into all-over compositions of stencilled block letters that traverse or grid the picture plane while maintaining the integritiy of their meaning. Recently, Wool has turned from the techniques of image construction to exploring methods of image destruction in the silkscreened, overpainted, and spraypainted works of the mid-1990s.
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Add this copy of Christopher Wool to cart. $265.00, like new condition, Sold by modlitbooks rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Scalo Publishers.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 296 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. First edition, first printing. A fine clean tight unmarked copy in equally fine dust jacket. Richly illustrated throughout. The first major monograph on Chistopher Wool.
Add this copy of Christopher Wool to cart. $288.75, very good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Scalo.
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VG (overall shelfwear and light wear to block edges, tape on dust jacket) Navy blue boards with white lettering on spine, black and white illustrated dust jacket with mylar cover, 295 pp, profusely illustrated in black and white. This publication accompanies the Exhibition "Christopher Wool", presented at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 19. July-18 October 1998, and at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 21. November 1998-31 January 1999.
