Among Ourselves
Copley, William N.
£19.00
Among Ourselves
By William N. Copley
Hardback. Published by Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Germany, 2009. First edition. Approx size: 24.5cm H x 18cm W (9 3/4" H x 7"W). Art. 160pp with 83 colour illustrations & b/w.
This book was published in conjunction with the exhibition 'William N. Copley - Among Ourselves', shown at the Galarie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart - May 15 to July 17th 2009.
"William N. Copley (1919-1996) first got involved with the art world when he opened his own gallery in California, where he presented such prominent representatives of Surrealism as Rene Magritte, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, Joseph Cornell, and Man Ray, but in 1947 he decided to become a painter himself. After moving to Paris, he discovered his own artistic themes and developed his own unmistakable style, and his seemingly banal yet unquestionably subversive works are today considered one of the connecting links between Surrealism and Pop Art. This monograph presents Copley's cast of highly abstracted figures - his cowboys and pinup girls, his erotic and pornographic fantasies - which he developed out of classic American myths, the experiences of everyday life, and the world of sexual fetishes, all catalogued without commentary. This volume also includes an insightful essay by Stephen Berg and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dealer, the rarely produced essay written by Copley himself, in which the artist offered an entertaining account of his brief career as a gallery owner.
"The visual pun is the golden nugget that we seek." William N. Copley.
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