Description: Condition: Good. Packed in a BOX with cardboard backing and padding. (See Photos)! Pages: not written on, clean, bright, odor free, crease to top corner of several pages. Cover: clean, bright, light rubbing to edges, rubbing to front top corner tip. Ships from California. Ships same or next day (weekdays and Saturdays)! ABOUT: Donald Roller Wilson is a genuine original. One of the few really funny contemporary American artists, Wilson creates brilliant absurdist paintings that brazenly combine classical realism and post-Freudian black humor. In meticulously detailed scenes, depicting bizarre characters and anthropomorphized animals in realistic settings surrounded by commonplace, everyday objects, all that is comfortably familiar is rendered disconcertingly unfamiliar. The real and fantastic, the ordinary and bizarre, the sacred and profane, the erotic and morbid are master-fully juxtaposed in playful, mysterious tableaux and witty, mischievous portraits of fashionably attired dogs, cats, and chimpanzees. Collected together, these starkly realistic visions of incongruous and confusing relationships make up an ongoing, modern-day allegory whose only clear message is that things are not what they seem. This ambiguity is, for Wilson, a very deliberate and aggressive strategy, one calculated to baffle bemused viewers into confronting the question: What is really real? This exuberant midcareer anthology presents a richly representative sampling of Donald Roller Wilson's work from 1973 to the present. Over seventy paintings and six details are reproduced in color, displaying to full advantage Wilson's skilled draughtsman-ship, sensuous technique, and dramatic handling of color, light and space. The extended captions, in some cases complete narrative poems, and a commentary by the artist, identifying the cast of characters regularly appearing in the paintings, provide some clues about what is really going on.
Price: 24.99 USD
Location: Van Nuys, California
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Book Title: Roller : the Paintings of Donald Roller Wilson
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Publication Year: 1988
Topic: General, American / General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Art
Item Weight: 24.1 Oz
Author: Peter Frank
Format: Trade Paperback
