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Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective Hardcover – June, 2000

by Steven A. Nash (Author), Adam Gopnik (Contributor)

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Wayne Thiebaud, the California-based painter, has produced works of complexity and distinction that appear deceptively simple in terms of subject matter and in their presentation yet draw on many historical sources.

In fact, Thiebaud is part of the grand tradition of representational art from Chardin and Manet to the American Realist masters such as Eakins and Hopper. Best-known for his deadpan still-life paintings of cakes, pies, delicatessen counters, and other consumer goods, Thiebaud has also explored such themes as figure studies, the topography of Northern California, and cityscapes exaggerating the vertiginous roadways and geometric high-rises of San Francisco. Continuous throughout his career is his combination of the perceptual and the conceptual, of sensuous color, light, and painterly texture with rigorously formal composition, resulting in a highly personalized Americana. Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective is published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same title, the first major survey in fifteen years of work by this famous American figurative artist. Steven A. Nash, Associate Director and Chief Curator at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, has organized the exhibition and provides a biographical essay on Thiebaud. An extended essay by Adam Gopnik, the Paris Journal writer for The New Yorker, links Thiebaud to American writing as a painter in the tradition of Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and John Updike.

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Product Details

Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Thames & Hudson; F First Edition edition (June 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0500092923
ISBN-13: 978-0500092927
Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 1.1 x 12.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
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By Irene Brady Thomas on December 17, 2000

Format: Hardcover

I purchased this book right after walking through the Thiebaud retrospective at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. I usually don't like to buy books after I've seen the work firsthand as the color never compares with the paintings I had just seen. In this case, though, I was impressed with the reproduction color. As an artist I get to use this book to study how Thiebaud makes his works "sparkle" by painting one color next to another.

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Enlightening!

By A Customer on November 24, 2000

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I own lots of art books, but this is already one of my favorites. I stare and stare at these pictures and marvel at what he has done. The painting is so simple at first glance, and so much more complex and fascinating the longer I look. If you are a painter, there is very much to be learned from these paintings. The phrase "paint lovingly applied" in the editorial review is most apt--and as a result, one loves looking at it. This man is really a PAINTER, an artist who revives one's faith in painting here at the turn of a century that has seen more than its share of charlatans and feeble talents. Everything he paints looks profoundly delicious, and the landscapes and cityscapes from the 80's and 90's are like thrilling dreams. The book is a revelation!

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Color Reproductions are pretty bad...

By Art Lover on March 29, 2010

Format: Hardcover

I looked at this book in a museum bookstore immediately after viewing a huge retrospective of Thiebaud's paintings. I was going to buy this book, but after looking through it, I decided not to. Many of the paintings I had just seen in person were reproduced in this book. While I understand that reproductions are never as good as seeing the artwork in person, I was stunned by how drastically these reproductions failed to capture the vibrancy of the original paintings. The images were extremely grayed out and faded, and didn't even come close to capturing the actual colors in his work. Because Thiebaud's work relies so much on color, this was really a bummer. The book did include tons of color reproductions and a good cross section of his work. I would recommend this book to someone who is interested in seeing his paintings, but isn't very intersted in his use of color. For someone who is fascinated by his sophisticated and luminous colors, though, I would not recommend this book.

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A great artist, a so-so book, but there are no other options.

By Reich Claude on April 8, 2007

Format: Hardcover

The fact that Wayne Thiebaud is one of the most important American painters alive is undisputable. Now, this does not mean that any comprehensive book on his output should deserve 5 stars. This particular publication, the catalogue for a 2000 retrospective at the Whitney Museum in NYC, enables the reader to discover the whole range of the artist's paintings: cakes, bakery counters, tie racks, pin-ball machines, but also portraits (of his wife) and more recent Californian landscapes. The text is a fairly good, though not groundbreaking, description of his art, but the main drawback lies in the illustrations: I found the colors somewhat faded and, above all, there are no magnified details of the works, which I consider especially disappointing for such an artist as Thiebaud whose distinctive and thick brushstrokes and layers of paint are characteristic parts of his art.

Yet, it is the only significant publication on the artist, so let us not be too harsh on the rating...

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'What is America To Me?"

By Grady Harp HALL OF FAMETOP 100 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on October 30, 2004

Format: Hardcover

Remember that old Frank Sinatra song that served as an inspirational film for rainy day grade school entertainment in the 50's? Well, if there is an artist who has captured the imagination and dreamy reveries of life in the past century, the quieter, more ebulliently committed time to joy and the simple treasures here, that man is Wayne Thiebaud. WAYNE THIEBAUD: A PAINTINGS RETROSPECTIVE is a beautifully designed catalogue raisonne of the pop artist's oeuvre that toured the country a few years ago. Organized by curator Steven A. Nash of San Francisco (the artist's home) this book is beautifully illustrated with all of the iconic images of pies, cakes, candy apples, etc. that everyone associates with Thiebaud. Yet it gives equal time to the inimitable 'landscapes' of the hilly terrain that is San Francisco, valleys of Northern California, and beaches. Thiebaud's ability to flatten vistas into geometric patterns can be compared to Richard Diebenkorn's purely abstract Ocean Park Series of paintings: both artists understand space, color, and the excitement of the line.

Accompanying this 'delicious' array of Thiebaud paintings are essays by both Nash and by Adam Gopnik of 'New Yorker' who aptly praises Thiebaud as a man in the same company of Americana as Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and John Updike! That about sums it all up and this essay alone would be reason enough to buy this important volume of American art history. Simply superb. Grady Harp, October, 2004

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Wonderful Collection of Works

By Karen Halpern on March 14, 2006

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I had ordered this book to share it with my adult painting students in a class I teach. It was to inspire a lesson about painting pictures of pastries. What I found was so much more. The book provides an informative overview of a variety of types of work by this artist, both realist and pop artist, with fine quality reproductions of the art work.

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Gorgeous

By Abigail Taylor on July 28, 2010

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I've loved Wayne Thiebaud ever since I was a kid, leafing through my dad's art books - and now that I bake so much I have an even deeper fondness for the crisp cake and pastry paintings. This book covers a wide range of Thiebaud's work, from food to portraits to landscapes (especially my favorites, the vertigo-inspiring San Francisco hills!), and all are reproduced in beautiful crisp prints. The book is big enough to give you clear images but not so big that it won't fit on a bookshelf.

The narrative throughout is also well written, if you can ever bring yourself to read rather than just dreamily flipping through the images.

If you're a Thiebaud fan, I suggest you get this book, I doubt you'll be disappointed!

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no great quality

The quality of the photographs isn't great. But it's wonderful to have such a large collection of Thiebaud's paintings.

Published 7 months ago by Gentle Reader

Five Stars

One of my favorite artists. I had to have this book for my library.

Published 10 months ago by L. Magar

A great retrospective of Thiebaud's work

The book summarized the work of this important -- and still very active -- American artist. The book has a good set of reproductions that help illuminate his body of work. Read more

Published 15 months ago by Marivel

Great retrospective on a great artist.

This is a really nice book about Wayne Thiebaud. It has a lot of good, color illustrations of his work from the Pop Art to the recent works. Read more

Published 21 months ago by Dafna Anfad

great seller

on time and as expected

Published 21 months ago by Queenie

Wayne Thiebaud: A Retrospective

Beautiful book with wonderful color illustrations. Large format and with informative text. I will use this with my students and thanks for having it available.

Published on February 8, 2014 by Jacqueline Piechowski

love anything thiebaud

grew up a few blocks from this world famous pop artist, I love collecting his books. as an artist I think its a fantastic book! Read more

Published on September 16, 2013 by mari

More cake, less scenery, better color

I'm such a fan of Wayne Thiebaud's work, but I found myself wishing for more with this book: more paintings of cakes, ice cream, cupcakes and food; More color -- the reproductions... Read more

Published on June 20, 2013 by Toni Antonetti

Great Book

The reproduction of the paintings are beautiful, and the book give an interesting and intelligent history of this painter's beautiful work.

Published on June 5, 2013 by Jill S Schick

Just simply beautiful

I think I have every Wayne Thiebaud book there is. I never tire of his work. This is a great book just to have or to have to study. Read more

Published on May 20, 2013 by kelly mitchell