Christopher Wool

Christopher Wool

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<DIV><DIV>Exploring Christopher Wool's meanings and messages in a comprehensive monograph</div><DIV>In-your-face, achingly simple, deceptively frank, the work of <B>Christopher Wool</B> is so very New York. Though he owes a debt to abstract expressionism and pop art, he completely transcends€"even demolishes€"these genres. Whether it€s a text-based painting or an abstract spray-painted piece, his work is immediately engaging. Wool questions painting, like many other artists in his generation, but he doesn€t provide any easy answers. <I>€œThe harder you look the harder you look</I>,€ he puts it in one of his word paintings, and that is an excellent example of how he states the obvious whilst provoking us to think deeper about what seems obvious.<br><br>Christopher Wool became known in the mid-1980s through allover paintings produced with rubber rollers commonly used to simulate decorative wallpaper patterns on walls. By 1988 he had hit stride with his dry, dead-pan word paintings (€œTrbl,€ €œRiot,€ €œSell the House, Sell the Car, Sell the Kids€), while continuing to explore the possibilities of pattern painting. Since the 1990s, he has incorporated a widening variety of media in his work, including photography, silkscreen, and, in the new millennium, also the computer.<br><br>In over 400 pages, all of Wool's work phases are covered in large-scale reproductions, accompanied by production Polaroids and installation photos by Wool himself. Essays and analyses by <B>Glenn O€Brien, Jim Lewis, Ann Goldstein, Anne Pont©gnie, Richard Hell, </B>and <B>Eric Banks </B>make this book a great read as well as a definitive study of the artist's oeuvre so far.<br><br><B>This is the unlimited trade edition</B></div></div>