Tom Wesselmann. Flowers

Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004), one of the legendary founding fathers of Pop Art in the 1960s, maintained a special relationship with the aesthetic discipline of still life. Perhaps the productive and intelligent renewal of the seemingly marginal genre even places the decisive importance of his contribution to contemporary art rather than the use of the urban idiom of popular culture. The present publication provides an overview of Wesselmann's diverse floral still lifes and contains not only a knowledgeable essay by Klaus Honnef but also excerpts from the unpublished book "Summer in the Country" with texts, pictures and photos by Tom Wesselmann