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Dine, Jim. Color
Photographs. (With an Essay by James L. Enyeart and a text by David
Adamson). New York, Pace Wildenstein 1999. 4°. [18] Bl. mit 12
Farbtafeln. OKart.

Mit eigenhändiger Widmung von J. Dine
„For Jean-Francois Bonhomme from Jim Dine 2000“. – Der US-amerik.
Künstler Jim Dine (geb. 1935), einer der letzten lebenden Hauptvertreter
der Pop Art. Dines künstlerisches Werk umfasst Malerei, Zeichnungen,
Druckgrafik, Skulpturen und Fotografien. – „A recycler of familiar icons
and implements from mass culture, Dine is usually lumped with Pop
artists like Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg.
He’s adhered a bathroom sink to one canvas, leaned a lawn mower onto
another and painted, drawn or printed innumerable images of hearts,
robes, flowers, tools and the Venus de Milo. What Dine’s works have had
in common over the past 40 years is an iconic simplicity, immediate and
accessible legibility. Dine invests them with intensely private meaning
through texture, color or nuanced brushwork, but they usually smile a
very public smile. The photographs, on the other hand, have a much
quieter, more personal presence. They feel more overtly charged with
emotion than Dine’s work in other media, more resonant with deeper,
internal mysteries. “Photography,” the artist said in a recent
interview, “has allowed me to access my unconscious in a very immediate
way.“ … As new as photography is to Dine, performance is where he
started (with Happenings in the late ‘50s), and poetry was another
significant stop earlier in his career. The pathos and intimacy of these
photographs, then, might not be as much a deviation for Dine as a
return—to an original state of nakedness preceding the robe“ (Leah
Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 4. 12. 2000). – Der franz. Philosoph und
Fotograf J.-F. Bonhomme (geb. 1943) studierte am Filminstitut bei Noel
Burch und später Philosophie bei Gilles Deleuse und Jean-Francois
Lyotard in Paris. Er besuchte Seminare von Roland Barthes und Michel
Foucault. Seit 1982 ist er als Fotograf tätig. Er lebt und arbeitet in
Paris und Athen. – Kanten geringf. berieben, sehr gutes Exemplar.