Life Lessons: The Art of Jerome Witkin, Second Edition / Edition 2

by Sherry Chayat

Overview

As a master of realism, Jerome Witkin illustrates in his art the moral plight of everyday lives. His most complex and critically acclaimed works-intense, often disturbing scenes of the Holocaust-have earned him a growing international audience. This second edition of Life Lessons incorporates material from the past decade, including ten of his most important and provocative paintings. It brings the viewer in intimate contact with the dense interior landscapes of both people and places. Often regarded as belonging to an artistic pantheon including the work of Lucien Freud, Manet, Ingres, Goya, and Courbet, Witkin's paintings range from moody urban landscapes and penetrating portraits to intimate figure studies and vivid, psychologically charged tableaux, frequently referencing seminal moments in history. Witkin's newer work includes·an enormous six-panel exploration of Dachau's 1945 liberation (Entering Darkness, 2001)-his culmination of a twenty-year series on the Holocaust, regarded by critics as among the most compelling of paintings made on the subject.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815608462
Publisher:	Syracuse University Press
Publication date:	02/16/2006
Edition description:	2ND
Pages:	140
Sales rank:	1,073,092
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Sherry Chayat is an adjunct professor at University College, Syracuse University.

Editorial Reviews

Perhaps the greatest figurative painter alive.

The Jewish Journal

Dreams in the grand visionary manner of the Old Masters . . . painted with the rhapsodic abandon of pure sensation. . . . Unequivocal masterpieces.

Art Historian Donald Kuspit