Paul Thek: Notebook #41, 1977 Lin Prints or what he saw as

or what he saw as the potential of the sitter emerging from that corner

“Though the definition of painting and its limits had already been in disrepair for decades by the time of Schnabel’s intervention

The publication features an excerpt from the artist’s “Crude Delights

a visual essay by Jean-François Chevrier

Éric de Chassey discusses the paintings

Paul Thek: Notebook #41, 1977 Lin Prints or what he saw asAmerican artist Paul Thek, an influential figure in the post 1960s generation, left behind more than 100 notebooks containing drawings, diary entries, poetry, correspondences, ideas for artworks, and elaborate transcriptions of texts by philosophers or theologians. Considered by Thek to be artworks unto themselves, his notebooks provide unparalleled insight into his imagination, which he translated into sculpture, painting, and installation. This