{"product_id":"william-wegman-writing-by-artist","title":"WILLIAM WEGMAN \/ Writing by Artist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam Wegman\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWriting by Artist  \u003c\/em\u003e2022\u003cbr\u003eSoftcover, 352 pages\u003cbr\u003e28 x 21.5cm\u003cbr\u003ePrimary Information \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: New\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWriting by Artist \u003c\/em\u003eis the first collection to focus on William Wegman’s lengthy and deeply funny relationship to language, and is filled with previously unknown and wildly entertaining texts, drawings, and early photographs spanning the early 1970s to the present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot your standard book of essays, the publication was meticulously edited by Andrew Lampert to feature works incorporating words in one form or another. In some instances, the text is simply a caption or a few hand-written words, but all of the selected works hinge conceptually and pictorially on writing and language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWriting by Artist \u003c\/em\u003eoffers a wide range of entry points into the artist’s universe. There are early photographic works, which may be familiar, but from there, things delightfully unravel with absurd non-sequiturs typed on Princess Cruises stationary, imagined restaurant reviews, witty annotations to a curator’s essay, musings on ancient footwear, deliberate mistranslations, reworked greeting cards, fictional advertisements for real life products, and other surprising prose forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUltimately,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWriting by Artists \u003c\/em\u003ealters the logic and pushes the boundaries of what artist writing can be—shedding new light for those only familiar with Wegman’s later work, while serving as a welcome reminder of the artist’s madcap inventiveness for the already enlightened. In short, what you do or don’t know about William Wegman now conveniently fits into this strangely beguiling collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam Wegman was born in 1943 in Holyoke, Massachusetts. His work has been exhibited at museums and galleries internationally including retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and the Centre Pompidou. Recent exhibitions include\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBefore\/On\/After: William Wegman and California Conceptualism \u003c\/em\u003eat the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wegman has also created film and video works for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSaturday Night Live\u003c\/em\u003e, Nickelodeon, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSesame Street \u003c\/em\u003eand appeared on \u003cem\u003eThe Tonight Show, The \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eDavid Letterman Show\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Colbert Report\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WILLIAM WEGMAN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45788460548377,"sku":"","price":69.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/5024\/2841\/files\/PI_Wegman_Cover_Web-scaled.jpg?v=1689600768","url":"https:\/\/landslidebooksandobjects.com\/products\/william-wegman-writing-by-artist","provider":"Landslide","version":"1.0","type":"link"}