Wayne Thiebaud started his career as a commercial artist.
Thiebaud's characteristic work displays consumer objects such
as pies and cakes as they are seen in drug store windows.
Executed during the fifties and sixties, these works slightly
predate the works of the classic pop artists, suggesting that
Thiebaud may have had a great influence on the movement. He
lives and works in California.
Kenneth Baker has been the resident art critic at the San
Francisco Chronicle since 1983. He is the author of
Minimalism: Art of Circumstance. Nicholas Fox Weber
is a culture historian. He is the Executive Director of the
Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and has written extensively
about each artist. He is the author of many books including
The Bauhaus Group, Le Corbusier, Balthus: A Biography, and
The Art of Babar. Karen Wilkin is the Contributing
Editor for Art for the Hudson Review and a regular contributor
to The New Criterion and The Wall Street Journal.
John Yau is an American poet and critic having
published more than 50 books. Yau has been the Arts editor of
The Brooklyn Rail since 2004. He currently teaches
art criticism at Mason Gross School of the Arts and Rutgers
University.
"[Wayne Thiebaud] is required reading for those who have
a healthy appetite for provocative art."
-BLOOMBERG BUSINESS
"This comprehensive monograph of more than 200 illustrations can
literally be considered eye candy. American artist Wayne
Thiebaud is famed for his brightly colored canvases of cakes, diner
pies, pastries, ice cream cones, candy and brightly colored gumball
machines. . . Often aligned with the Pop Art movement of the '60s
with which he came of age as an artist, Thiebaud has also painted
lipsticks, women's shoes and toys in the same simple but ideal
manner, as if they were Platonic essences. Whether still lifes or
landscapes, Thiebaud's paintings are akin to visual Prozac; you
simply cannot be in a bad mood looking at them."
-KANSAS CITY MAGAZINE
"While Thiebaud is best known for his heavily pigmented still lifes
of cakes, pies, and candies, [this] book shows his broader range,
from vibrant landscapes depicting highways and farmland to
portraits of solitary figures. . . The texts examine Thievaud's
influences as well as his impact on the art world and the
individual viewers of his work."
-ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST
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