Delicious Metropolis: The Desserts and Urban Scenes of Wayne Thiebaud

(Hardback)

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This book brings together two of Wayne Thiebaud's most celebrated bodies of work: desserts and cityscapes. Between the two, fascinating juxtapositions develop. The layers of a Neapolitan cake echo the shadows cast across a street in the late afternoon, and the pastel hues of sponge cake and icing match the candy-coloured houses of the California cities Thiebaud has called home. With a foreword by an expert onThiebaud's work, ten short essays by curators, critics, and artists, 95 gorgeous images, and a faux dyed edge creating a layer cake effect on the book block, this is a rich and accessible celebration of an iconic artist.

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"Delicious Metropolis pairs painter Wayne Thiebaud's iconic confections with cityscapes in similar shades; in his eyes, Sacramento, California's pink skies and blue hills look sweet enough to eat." --Martha Stewart Living
"What a clever idea it is to take Wayne Thiebaud's most notable bodies of work--desserts and cityscapes--and place them in a book side by side to illustrate similarities between them.... Delightful." --California Homes Magazine

Author Bio

Wayne Thiebaud is a world-renowned American artist, famous for his brightly coloured still-lifes of desserts and his cityscapes of San Francisco as well as portraits and landscapes. His work is featured in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian American Museum, and many other institutions. He is a recipient of the National Medal of Arts and a professor emeritus at University of California, Davis, and he was inducted into the California Hall of Fame in 2010. He lives in Sacramento.