Published by Primary Information. Edited by Andrew Lampert.
While he’s famous the world over for his instantly recognizable images of Weimaraner dogs, William Wegman has long been one of Conceptual art’s true innovators. Filled with previously unknown and wildly entertaining texts, drawings and early photos, Writing by Artist is the first collection to focus on Wegman's longstanding and deeply funny relationship to language. This career-spanning edition presents a thematically organized selection of rediscovered writings dating back to the 1970s and 1980s, alongside landmark early photographs and hilarious drawings from throughout his career. All of the works brilliantly incorporate words in one form or another, altering logic and pushing the boundaries of what artist writing can be. Writing by Artist serves as a genuine epiphany for those only familiar with his later work, and a welcome reminder of his madcap inventiveness for the already enlightened. What you do or don’t know about William Wegman now conveniently fits into this strangely beguiling book. William Wegman was born in 1943, in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He received a BFA in painting from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, in 1965 and an MFA in painting from the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana, in 1967. By the early ’70s, Wegman’s work was being exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. In addition to solo shows with Sonnabend Gallery in Paris and New York, Situation Gallery in London and Konrad Fisher Gallery in Düsseldorf, his work was included in such seminal exhibitions as When Attitudes Become Form and Documenta V, and was regularly featured in Interfunktionen, Artforum and Avalanche magazines. Wegman has created film and video works for Saturday Night Live and Nickelodeon, and his video segments for Sesame Street have appeared regularly since 1989. In 1995, Wegman’s film The Hardly Boys was screened at the Sundance Film Festival. Wegman has appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and with Jay Leno, The David Letterman Show and The Colbert Report.
Published by A.S.A.P.. Edited by Marion Boulton Stroud.
Dogs on Rocks is a volume of new photographs of William Wegman's famous Weimaraners, taken while he was in residence at The Acadia Summer Arts Program in Maine or at his own home in Maine. Many of these stunning shots--of the dogs alone, in pairs or in groups--take advantage of the breathtaking vistas of Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island, where the program is located. Wegman's formal portraits of the animals are framed by the natural beauty and muted tones of the island's forest and rocky beach. "I don't feel lonely when I'm around them," Wegman has said about his beloved dogs, "But I love also listening to them. I always make sure I spend some time just seeing what they're really doing. Especially outside, you know, when you're alone with them. Because so many people, including myself, fill in a whole vocabulary for them that is ours and not theirs. I remember spending some time for the first time with Man Ray, my first dog. I didn't talk that day. I just listened to what he was listening to, the whole aura of smells and sounds and sights and things that he was picking up on during that day." The Acadia Summer Arts Program was founded by Marion Boulton Stroud, the founder of The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, where she is the Artistic Director. William Wegman was born in 1943 in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Though he studied painting, Wegman gradually began to develop an interest in photography and video, the mediums for which he remains known. In the early 1970s, he moved to Southern California and began a long and fruitful collaboration with his first dog, Man Ray--who endeared himself to the art world with his deadpan presence. Wegman has added several dogs to his cast in the course of his nearly 40-year career. In addition to maintaining a presence in the art world, he has published a number of children's books and has created film and video works for Saturday Night Live and Sesame Street. He lives and works in New York City and Maine.
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BOOK FORMAT Hardback, 7 x 9.25 in. / 136 pgs / 88 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 9/1/2008 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2008 p. 166
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9780979764202TRADE List Price: $29.95 CDN $35.00
Published by Editions Flux. Artwork by William Wegman.
Not only a book on people's dysfunctional relationship with nature, William Wegman's Field Guide to North America and Other Regions is a charming, large-format, diary-like set of suggestions for human beings to live more congruously with their natural world. Featuring only a few of Wegman's signature photographs, this volume contains the artist's watercolors, sketches (Hansel and Gretel, “Paw Prints”), collages, diagrams, drawings, recipes ( Cinnamon Teal Duck Cake) and maps, along with several vintage images that revolve around the theme of nature.
PUBLISHER Editions Flux
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 11.75 x 19 in. / 48 pgs / 48 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 3/15/2005 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2005 p. 133
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9782914281072TRADE List Price: $24.00 CDN $27.50
Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Artwork by William Wegman.
Journeying to the New York City borough of Queens is a much easier and more pleasant experience than the average Manhattanite would imagine. With the temporary relocation of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, to its new quarters at the old Swingline staple factory, the trip becomes a necessity for any art lover. But how do you get there? Do you take the Concord? A ferry boat? Can you walk? And how will you know when you're there? Fear these travels not--William Wegman and the ever ominous, sensitive, brooding Chip, the youngest of Wegman's brood of weimaraners, are here to map out the way to MoMA QNS. Join Chip as he shuttles from Manhattan into Long Island City on the 7 train, alight from the subway with him at Queens Boulevard and 33rd Street, and stroll together along Queens Boulevard, "the Champs Elysée of Long Island City." Voilá, there you are at MoMA QNS, a long, striking, blue building, complete with 160,000 square feet of recently redesigned space for exhibition galleries, study centers, workshops, storage, offices and a cafe bookstore. Enjoy the trip!
Published by F.R.A.C. Limousin. Artwork by William Wegman.
This well-illustrated survey of Wegman's early work includes the first Man Ray photographs, work in video, performance, and multimedia collage. Second printing.
PUBLISHER F.R.A.C. Limousin
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 11.25 x 8.75 in. / 222 pgs / 148 bw
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 10/2/1993 No longer our product
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: UNKNOWN 1990
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9782908257120TRADE List Price: $49.95 CDN $60.00
William Wegman: Dogs on Rocks
William Wegman: Field Guide To North America And Other Regions
William Wegman: How Do You Get To Moma Qns?
William Wegman: Photographic Works 1969-1976