John WesleyOver the course of the past 40 years, painter John Wesley has created a remarkably singular body of work whose subject is no less than the American psyche. While many artists of his generation have used popular images to explore the cultural landscape, Wesley has employed comic strip style and compositional rigor to make deeply personal, often hermetic paintings that strike at the core of our most primal fears, joys and desires. In this first volume ever to collect the entire iconic Bumstead series, which spans from 1974 until the present, we are introduced to several paintings that have never been reproduced before. These are dark and erotic works, sly and witty without ever giving too much away. Linda Norden described them thus in Parkett 62: "The Bumstead paintings--whether detailing scenes of domestic misunderstanding, zooming in on off-camera moments of bafflement or simply scanning empty halls and walls for private memories--are excruciatingly specific representations of the gulfs between feeling and comprehension... smart, funny, startling, irreverently empathetic and often heartbreaking, they are a welcome antidote to more laborious discourse." With an insightful new essay by Robert Hobbs. |
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... that John Smith was comparatively well informed about Wesley and the Methodists , that he was a responsible churchman and a good theologian — and that Wesley took him seriously ! prove of lay preachers.2 " Well , if they preach 3 I.
... that John Smith was comparatively well informed about Wesley and the Methodists , that he was a responsible churchman and a good theologian — and that Wesley took him seriously ! prove of lay preachers.2 " Well , if they preach 3 I.
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... preachers into an annual con- ference ; see below , pp . 134-35- 3. Cf. Robert Barclay , Apology for the True Christian Religion as the Same Is Set Forth and Preached by the People Called in Scorn “ Quakers " ( 1678 ) . 4. Moore , Life ...
... preachers into an annual con- ference ; see below , pp . 134-35- 3. Cf. Robert Barclay , Apology for the True Christian Religion as the Same Is Set Forth and Preached by the People Called in Scorn “ Quakers " ( 1678 ) . 4. Moore , Life ...
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... preacher and author.17 In 1726 he was elected fellow of Lincoln College . This established his academic status in the university and assured him of financial security so long as he remained celibate.18 This exemption from economic ...
... preacher and author.17 In 1726 he was elected fellow of Lincoln College . This established his academic status in the university and assured him of financial security so long as he remained celibate.18 This exemption from economic ...
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... preached never so faithfully , still were lacking . Then , almost by chance , while " walking from London to Oxford " ( October 9 , 1738 ) , he began " to read the truly surprising narrative of the conversions lately wrought in and ...
... preached never so faithfully , still were lacking . Then , almost by chance , while " walking from London to Oxford " ( October 9 , 1738 ) , he began " to read the truly surprising narrative of the conversions lately wrought in and ...
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... preached in the fields at Baptist Mills ( a Bristol suburb ) , and on the following Sun- day on Hannam Mount , to ... preached bears visible fruit . And now , before his eyes , was a harvest of such fruit . What had happened was that he ...
... preached in the fields at Baptist Mills ( a Bristol suburb ) , and on the following Sun- day on Hannam Mount , to ... preached bears visible fruit . And now , before his eyes , was a harvest of such fruit . What had happened was that he ...
Contents
V | 41 |
VI | 51 |
VIII | 70 |
IX | 73 |
X | 77 |
XI | 80 |
XII | 82 |
XIII | 84 |
XXXI | 231 |
XXXII | 238 |
XXXIII | 251 |
XXXIV | 252 |
XXXV | 271 |
XXXVI | 283 |
XXXVII | 298 |
XXXVIII | 306 |
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