{"product_id":"9780945558415","title":"Walter Robinson: Paintings and Other Indulgences","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy 1980 Walter Robinson (born 1950) had established himself as a critic for \u003ci\u003eArt in America\u003c\/i\u003e and member of the New York artists' collective Collaborative Projects. He became notable for paintings of square-jawed detective-hero types and swooning vixens based on pulp romance covers. Employing what critic Carlo McCormick termed a \"devious sense of irony done with incredible sincerity,\" he examined painting's relationship to mass-culture images of desire, mining lurid illustrations from the 1940s and 50s and rerepresenting them in a style culled from \"how to paint\" books. Robinson's subsequent paintings of beer cans and bottles, pharmaceuticals, fast-food burgers, Lands' End models and online erotic \"selfies\" continue to address our indulgence of longing and excess in a media-saturated world. \u003ci\u003eWalter Robinson: Paintings and Other Indulgences\u003c\/i\u003e is the first monograph on Robinson, with photographs of 140 paintings spanning his 35-year career.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Galleries","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47034690666736,"sku":"9780945558415","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780945558415_p0.jpg?v=1763879838","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780945558415","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}