The Art of Lee Waisler

Wendon, John. The Art of Lee Waisler. London: Andre Deutsch Ltd, 1990. First edition. 4to. 102pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine in original dj. Minor scuffing to dj. Frontispiece. “When I was thirteen… I studied the photographic documentation of the German death factories. I starred at the massed mounds of dead. I searched their faces… The Holocaust necessarily became the tableau against which I projected my own life. Yet I was constrained from painting it, as though there was profanity in any attempt to transform the catastrophe into an aesthetic…. Had not the Nazis (and others) subordinated the self to the Volk or the masses or the media, and thrust the world into despair? Driven by a sense of responsibility to sustain the individual, I began to work” (John Wendon). Illustrated with distinctive color reproductions of the artist’s work. In near fine condition. vg. Hardcover. (11685) $65