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Book SynopsisBy 1980 Walter Robinson (born 1950) had established himself as a critic for
Art in America and member of the New York artists'' collective Collaborative Projects. He became notable for paintings of square-jawed detective-hero types and swooning vixens based on pulp romance covers. Employing what critic Carlo McCormick termed a devious sense of irony done with incredible sincerity, he examined painting''s relationship to mass-culture images of desire, mining lurid illustrations from the 1940s and 50s and rerepresenting them in a style culled from how to paint books. Robinson''s subsequent paintings of beer cans and bottles, pharmaceuticals, fast-food burgers, Lands'' End models and online erotic selfies continue to address our indulgence of longing and excess in a media-saturated world.
Walter Robinson: Paintings and Other Indulgences is the first monograph on Robinson, with photographs of 140 paintings spanning his 35-year career.
Trade ReviewRobinson is a Manet of hot babes and a Morandi of McDonald's French fries and Budweiser beer cans, magnetized by his subjects as he devotes his brush to generic painterly description. -- Peter Schjeldahl * The Newyorker *
