Paul Thek: Artist's Artist
2008Falckenberg, Harald; Peter Weibel
550 pages (color)
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1933 Brooklyn, New York - 1988. Known for: Mixed media conceptual work, abstract painting.
The following review, by Holland Cotter, is from The New York Times, October 21, 2010. Paul Thek, the subject of a ragged, moving and much-anticipated retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American... Read full biography
The following review, by Holland Cotter, is from The New York Times, October 21, 2010. Paul Thek, the subject of a ragged, moving and much-anticipated retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, was only 54 when he died of AIDS in 1988. But by then he had already slipped through the cracks... Read full biography
The following review, by Holland Cotter, is from The New York Times, October 21, 2010. Paul Thek, the subject of a ragged, moving and much-anticipated retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, was only 54 when he died of AIDS in 1988. But by then he had already slipped through the cracks of art history. Or rather he had fallen into one of the deep trenches that divide that history into artificial islands with names like Pop and Minimalism. Thek came to art with so much going for him... Read full biography
The following review, by Holland Cotter, is from The New York Times, October 21, 2010. Paul Thek, the subject of a ragged, moving and much-anticipated retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, was only 54 when he died of AIDS in 1988. But by then he had already slipped through the cracks of art history. Or rather he had fallen into one of the deep trenches that divide that history into artificial islands with names like Pop and Minimalism. Thek came to art with so much going for him — talent, looks, energy and imaginative peculiarity — that for a decade or so he was an island unto himself, an archipelago even. In the early 1960s, when everyone else in New York was into hands-off fabrication and Benday dots, he was modeling... Read full biography
The following review, by Holland Cotter, is from The New York Times, October 21, 2010. Paul Thek, the subject of a ragged, moving and much-anticipated retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, was only 54 when he died of AIDS in 1988. But by then he had already slipped through the cracks of art history. Or rather he had fallen into one of the deep trenches that divide that history into artificial islands with names like Pop and Minimalism. Thek came to art with so much going for him — talent, looks, energy and imaginative peculiarity — that for a decade or so he was an island unto himself, an archipelago even. In the early 1960s, when everyone else in New York was into hands-off fabrication and Benday dots, he was modeling hyper-realistic images of meat, raw and bleeding, from beeswax. Gross and funny, they had people buzzing.... Read full biography
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesDavenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art
1996Demetrion, James T (Introduction)166 pages (color)Word As Image American Art 1960-1990
1990
(Exhibition catalog)Bowman, Russell/Dean Sobel172 pages (color)Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989Naylor, Colin (editor)1,059 pagesDictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987Cummings, Paul653 pagesWho's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986Jaques Cattell Press1,292 pagesMovements in Art since 1945 New Revised Edition
1984Lucie-Smith, Edward288 pages (color)Critical Vision/A Historyof Social and Political Art in the U S
1982Von Blum, Paul165 pagesThe Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981Osborne, Harold656 pages (color)Art in the Seventies
1980Lucie-Smith, Edward128 pages (color)American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources
1977Ekdahl, Janis260 pagesArt on the Edge Creators and Situations
1975Rosenberg, Harold303 pagesThe New Humanism Art in a Time of Change
1974Schwartz, Barry192 pages (color)Human Concern/Personal Torment The Grotesque in American Art
1969
(Exhibition catalog)Doty, Robert72 pages (color)Minimal Art A Critical Anthology
1968Battcock, Gregory (editor)448 pages