Dine, Color Photographs - SIGNIERT - WIDMUNGSEXEMPLAR - POP-ART

Dine, Jim. Color Photographs. (With an Essay by James L. Enyeart and a text by David Adamson). New York, Pace Wildenstein 1999. 4°. [18] Bl. mit 12 Farbtafeln. OKart.

Mit eigenhändiger Widmung von J. Dine „For Jean-Francois Bonhomme from Jim Dine 2000“. – Der US-amerik. Künstler Jim Dine (geb. 1935), einer der letzten lebenden Hauptvertreter der Pop Art. Dines künstlerisches Werk umfasst Malerei, Zeichnungen, Druckgrafik, Skulpturen und Fotografien. – „A recycler of familiar icons and implements from mass culture, Dine is usually lumped with Pop artists like Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg. He’s adhered a bathroom sink to one canvas, leaned a lawn mower onto another and painted, drawn or printed innumerable images of hearts, robes, flowers, tools and the Venus de Milo. What Dine’s works have had in common over the past 40 years is an iconic simplicity, immediate and accessible legibility. Dine invests them with intensely private meaning through texture, color or nuanced brushwork, but they usually smile a very public smile. The photographs, on the other hand, have a much quieter, more personal presence. They feel more overtly charged with emotion than Dine’s work in other media, more resonant with deeper, internal mysteries. “Photography,” the artist said in a recent interview, “has allowed me to access my unconscious in a very immediate way.“ … As new as photography is to Dine, performance is where he started (with Happenings in the late ‘50s), and poetry was another significant stop earlier in his career. The pathos and intimacy of these photographs, then, might not be as much a deviation for Dine as a return—to an original state of nakedness preceding the robe“ (Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 4. 12. 2000). – Der franz. Philosoph und Fotograf J.-F. Bonhomme (geb. 1943) studierte am Filminstitut bei Noel Burch und später Philosophie bei Gilles Deleuse und Jean-Francois Lyotard in Paris. Er besuchte Seminare von Roland Barthes und Michel Foucault. Seit 1982 ist er als Fotograf tätig. Er lebt und arbeitet in Paris und Athen. – Kanten geringf. berieben, sehr gutes Exemplar.