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Will Cotton
Toby Kamps
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The first monograph on the popular New York-based artist Will Cotton, best known for his large-scale portraits of female nudes in candy-coated dreamlike landscapes. Will Cotton is best known for his depictions of “landscapes” composed of sweets: fondant frostings, peppermint sticks, marshmallows, and cotton-candy clouds often inhabited by languidly posed females. Executed with flawless skill and technique, Cotton’s work is an optical delight and is formally resonant with the influences of seventeenth-century rococo paintings, the nudes of Bouguereau and Cabanel, and the classic American pin-ups of George Petty and Alberto Vargas. Cotton’s figures are often inspired by models such as ... Read more
The first monograph on the popular New York-based artist Will Cotton, best known for his large-scale portraits of female nudes in candy-coated dreamlike landscapes. Will Cotton is best known for his depictions of “landscapes” composed of sweets: fondant frostings, peppermint sticks, marshmallows, and cotton-candy clouds often inhabited by languidly posed females. Executed with flawless skill and technique, Cotton’s work is an optical delight and is formally resonant with the influences of seventeenth-century rococo paintings, the nudes of Bouguereau and Cabanel, and the classic American pin-ups of George Petty and Alberto Vargas. Cotton’s figures are often inspired by models such as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Rizzoli International Publications United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
172
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780847836673
SKU
V9780847836673
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About Toby Kamps
Will Cotton received his BFA from The Cooper Union in 1987. He is represented by Mary Boone Gallery in New York and Galerie Daniel Templon in Paris. Toby Kamps is curator of modern and contemporary art at The Menil Collection, Houston. Francine Prose is the author of sixteen books of fiction. Her novel A Changed Man won the Dayton Literary ... Read more
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