How Long to Read Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death

How Long Does it Take to Read Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 26 minutes to read Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death by Tanya Sheehan

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Presenting recently rediscovered drawings, Life and Death explores what it means for an artist to picture their own death, in both the context of Wyeth's late career and contemporary American art This volume presents for the first time a recently rediscovered series of pencil drawings from the early 1990s, through which Wyeth imagined his own funeral. Chapters by leading art historians explore the significance of picturing one's own death in both the context of Wyeth's late career and contemporary American art. The book connects the funeral series to Wyeth's decades-long engagement with death as an artistic subject in painting, his relationships with the models depicted, and his use of drawing as an expressive and exploratory medium. It further inserts Wyeth's work into a larger conversation about mortality and self-portraiture that developed in American art since the 1960s, and includes works by Duane Michals, Andy Warhol, David Wojnarowicz, George Tooker, Janaina Tschäpe and Mario Moore. While his contemporaries posed a variety of existential questions in picturing their own passing, those that interrogate the universality of death as a human experience have become especially urgent in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and the national reckoning with racial inequality that emerged in 2020. Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death thus addresses ideas about loss, grief, vulnerability and (im)mortality that pervade the current moment. American painter Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) lived his entire life in his birthplace of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and his summer home in mid-coast Maine. His seven-decade career was spent painting the land and people that he knew and cared about. Renowned for his tempera painting Christina's World (1948), Wyeth navigated between artistic representation and abstraction in a highly personal way.

How long is Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death?

Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death by Tanya Sheehan is 144 pages long, and a total of 36,576 words.

This makes it 49% the length of the average book. It also has 45% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 19 minutes to read Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death aloud.

What Reading Level is Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death?

Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

Where Can I Buy Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death?

Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death by Tanya Sheehan is sold by several retailers and bookshops. However, Read Time works with Amazon to provide an easier way to purchase books.

To buy Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death by Tanya Sheehan on Amazon click the button below.