{"product_id":"bob-thompson-9780520212602","title":"Bob Thompson","description":"\u003cp\u003eBob Thompson (1937-1966) was a figurative expressionist painter active in literary  musical  and artistic circles in New York and Europe from the late 1950s until his death in 1966. In the first book devoted solely to Thompson  the life and work of this pivotal figure in modern American art history and African American culture receive the attention they deserve.  Judith Wilson situates Bob Thompson within the context of both contemporary artistic production and cultural trends of the fifties and sixties. She uses interviews  Thompsons diary entries and letters to his family  and his work to give a thoughtful and thorough interpretation of his art and persona. She traces Thompsons developmentpsychologically  socially  and artisticallyeffectively portraying his first encounters with art and bohemian culture and his intensely active period in Europe shortly before his death in Rome at the age of 29.  Bob Thompsons life intersects several important currents in recent American culture  and his work reveals an unfinished quest for communal identity  says Wilson. His use of postmodern techniques of appropriation and pastiche embraced both the Western tradition and cultural resources specific to the African American experience. The publication of Bob Thompson recognizes the important role of the artist in the vanguard of twentieth-century American art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45280051003445,"sku":"ByrdShop_0520212606","price":90.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780520212602_c7bc4166-ea6c-43b8-9dd1-ea60a68c8434.jpg?v=1780618165","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/bob-thompson-9780520212602","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}