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Tooker's Dream-like Reality
For more than 60 years, George Tooker (1920–2011) created luminous and often enigmatic paintings, addressing issues from alienation and the dehumanizing aspects of contemporary society to personal meditations on the human condition. His spiritual vision ultimately stands as a quest for the endless possibilities of intimacy, compassion, and tolerance, as evident in his works. From the Cold War urban purgatories and bureaucratic paranoia of his early paintings to his later warm, glowing images of lovers embracing in fields or found in windows, Tooker's art has been widely recognized. Widespread public recognition first came to Tooker through his best-known painting, "Subway" (1950), a definitive image of anxiety and dread. His more utopian themes of peace, brotherhood, and reconciliation would find expression in such works as "Embrace of Peace II" (1988). Published in conjunction with DC Moore Gallery's memorial exhibition, George Tooker: Reality Recurs as a Dream features paintings from every period of Tooker's long career.
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| Attribute | Value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| publisher | DC Moore Gallery (July 31, 2012) | ||||
| language | English | ||||
| hardcover | 88 pages | ||||
| isbn_10 | 0982631677 | ||||
| isbn_13 | 978-0982631676 | ||||
| item_weight | 1.14 pounds | ||||
| dimensions | 9 x 0.5 x 12 inches | ||||
| best_sellers_rank | #2,794,058 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #4,286 in Individual Artist Monographs #11,623 in Arts & Photography Criticism #15,743 in Art History (Books) | ||||
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