{"title":"Tom Wesselmann","description":"\u003cp\u003eTom Wesselmann (1931–2004, Cincinnati) was an American artist whose practice from the late 1950s onwards placed him at the centre of American Pop Art. Working in New York, Wesselmann developed a body of work that engaged directly with the visual languages of advertising, consumer culture and the female nude, producing paintings, collages and assemblages that combined found commercial imagery with bold, flat colour and monumental scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis \u003cem\u003eGreat American Nude\u003c\/em\u003e series, begun in 1961 and continuing for more than two decades, used the conventions of the odalisque and the pin-up to produce works in which the female body was simultaneously celebrated, abstracted and subjected to the same graphic logic as the commercial products surrounding it. His \u003cem\u003eStill Life\u003c\/em\u003e series incorporated actual objects — televisions, telephones, food packaging — alongside painted and collaged elements, collapsing the boundary between representation and the real.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWesselmann’s participation in \u003cem\u003ePhotonotations\u003c\/em\u003e (Rosa Esman Gallery, 1976) reflects his engagement with photography as an extension of his broader interest in mass-media imagery and the relationship between fine art and commercial visual culture. His work is held in major collections internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"photonotations-rosa-esman-gallery-new-york-1976","title":"ARMAN, MEL BOCHNER, SOL LEWITT, ROBERT MANGOLD, SYLVIA MANGOLD, HOWARDENA PINDELL, DOROTHEA ROCKBURNE, GEORGE SEGAL, ROBERT SMITHSON, TOM WESSELMANN et al. — Photonotations. Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, 1976","description":"\u003cp\u003eRosa Esman Gallery, 29 West 57th Street, New York, 4–28 May 1976. Original exhibition invitation. Offset-printed card, 14 × 9 cm. Colour photograph to recto; exhibition information to verso. Photograph by George Segal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good. General age toning, scattered spotting, minor corner and edge wear, and light surface marks consistent with circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhotonotations\u003c\/em\u003e assembled photographs by artists working across sculpture, painting, Minimalism and Conceptual art, including Arman, Bochner, LeWitt, the Mangolds, Pindell, Rockburne, Segal and Smithson. The exhibition belongs to a period in which the camera was increasingly used by artists not simply to produce photographs, but to document temporary actions, stage propositions and carry broader artistic ideas. Rosa Esman Gallery returned to the subject with \u003cem\u003ePhotonotations II\u003c\/em\u003e the following year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSegal’s image already performs the title: a figure works across an illuminated theatre marquee, interrupting its letters and leaving the message temporarily unreadable. On the reverse, the participating artists are converted into another notation — a tightly printed roster concluding simply with “and others.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe photograph becomes announcement, the artists become a list, and the exhibition travels as a card.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShips flat, securely card-backed and tracked from the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rosa Esman Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54008737497426,"sku":"SEGAL-ROSAMESMAN-INV-1976","price":125.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Arman_Bochner_Juszczyk_LeWitt_R.Mangold_S.Mangold_Pindell_Pozzi_Rockburne_Sanderson_Segal_Smithson_Wesselmann_Zuyderland._Show_invite_photonotions_._1976.jpg?v=1784137093"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/tom-wesselmann.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}