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Tidying Up Art | 
 enlarge | Author: Ursus Wehrli
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Category: Book
Buy New: $125.00
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 761394
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 48
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.6 x 0.4
ISBN: 3791330039
Dewey Decimal Number: 750.207
EAN: 9783791330037
ASIN: 3791330039
Publication Date: November 2003
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Condition: Hardcover with dust jacket, minor wear on the dustcover.
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Product Description
Who says great masterpieces can't be improved upon? In his hilarioyus reconfigurations of important paintings, comedian Ursus Wehrli deconstructs the works of famous artists and reconstructs them to fit his own slightly more orderly view of the world. Art is messy, and it's about time someone did something about it. Sort those shapes, arrange those colors and for goodness' sake, can't Van Gogh straighten up his bedroom? Neatniks and art lovers alike will delight in the whimsical playfulness of this book. Whether he's rearranging Magritte's apples, chromatically stacking Klee's vibrant squares, or depopulating Breugel's busy village, Wehrli's tongue-in-cheek editing of classic artworks is the next best thing to painting a moustache on the Mona Lisa.
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funniest picture book ever December 18, 2005
Morgan
this may be the most amusing gift i've ever received
i know it will cheer me up in the future
 The art of a neat book March 4, 2005
Robin Benson
Ursus Wehrli got there first with this wonderful idea but I was rather disappointed that there are only nineteen examples of his artistic tidiness and really less than ten are worth a second look. Seurat's 'Models' is the best example I think, the painting is on the left-hand page and opposite is a photo of a big plastic bag of colored chocolate buttons, just brilliant!
Mondrain, Klee, Picasso, Heering and Lichenstein all get fascinating tidy versions and the Van Gogh (see the book cover above) is another winner. I was though, expecting to see many more like the Van Gogh, that is keeping the basic painting and moving objects within it. Too many of the examples are just moving one or two items, like the three apples in Magritte's 'Young love', placed in a triangular shape in the original with Wehrli's version just having the apples in a straight line. Why are there no examples of tidy sculpture?
'Tidying up art' is a great idea and the book is well printed and designed but I wish there were lots more examples of Wehrli's creative fun. Maybe a second edition is on the way.
***FOR AN INSIDE LOOK click 'customer images' under the cover.
Engineer art... February 28, 2004
Leigh Campbell-Hale (Lafayette CO USA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is about the funniest book I've seen any time lately. I haven't yet bought it but got the gist of it in a recent visit to a local bookstore; I have to get it, on further reflection. The back cover of the Magritte...well, let's just say I am an engineer, and this one has got to go on my wall at work. I think at least maybe one of the guys I work with will get it...
Very amusing! February 11, 2004
kathleen (Greater New York)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
For any one who has ever taken an art history class or spent hours at a museum studying fine art, this book is for you. The author takes familiar, iconagraphic works and rearranges the elements in surprising and unexpected ways. Wonderful!
Beyond genius December 18, 2003
An Amazonian (Massachusetts, USA)
Sometimes the best ideas are the simplest. What thrills me about this book is that I or anyone could have done it if only I'd thought of it.His tidying up of abstract art is particularly hilarious.
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