John WesleyOver 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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... Holy Living and Dying . In reading several parts of this book I was exceedingly affected , by that part in particular which related to " purity of intention . " In- stantly I resolved to dedicate all my life to God , all my thoughts and ...
... Holy Living and Dying . In reading several parts of this book I was exceedingly affected , by that part in particular which related to " purity of intention . " In- stantly I resolved to dedicate all my life to God , all my thoughts and ...
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... Holy Club , The Reforming Club , Bible Moths , 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 ...
... Holy Club , The Reforming Club , Bible Moths , 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 ...
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... Holy Club from Oxford to a more desolate environment where its members might be less distracted and overborne.30 In 1734 his family began to importune him to seek the Epworth living as successor to his aging , ailing father . This ...
... Holy Club from Oxford to a more desolate environment where its members might be less distracted and overborne.30 In 1734 his family began to importune him to seek the Epworth living as successor to his aging , ailing father . This ...
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... Holy Club to Georgia , as missioners to the Indians and the colonists.32 Here was a call " to the desert , " indeed ! 33 In September the invitation was accepted and formally approved by " the Georgia Society . " 34 The following Jan ...
... Holy Club to Georgia , as missioners to the Indians and the colonists.32 Here was a call " to the desert , " indeed ! 33 In September the invitation was accepted and formally approved by " the Georgia Society . " 34 The following Jan ...
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... Holy Spirit . But , certainly as a young man , strong feelings had normally been for him far more disturbing and de- moralizing than creative . The program of Christian discipline as he had first practiced it was , therefore , an ...
... Holy Spirit . But , certainly as a young man , strong feelings had normally been for him far more disturbing and de- moralizing than creative . The program of Christian discipline as he had first practiced it was , therefore , an ...
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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