A Look Inside "Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art"
I believe very much in the tradition that art comes from art and nothing else. —Wayne Thiebaud
UC Press is thrilled to provide a virtual look inside Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art. Published in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the catalog and exhibition feature artist Wayne Thiebaud's (1920–2021) appropriations and reinterpretations of old and new European and American artworks, spanning from Andrea Mantegna to Édouard Manet, Henri Matisse to Richard Diebenkorn, offering crucial insights into his creative process.
Thiebaud's exploration of art, artists, and art history—along with the practices of copying, appropriation, and reinterpretation—allowed him not only to see through the eyes of other artists but also to commune with them through their work, expanding his own vision. This career-long engagement with the concept of appropriation illustrates his perception of art history as an encyclopedic "bureau of standards"—a rich repository and resource that offers working artists community with their predecessors and communion with their artworks.
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