In My Fathers House; the political philosopher Thomas Dumm explores a series of stark and melancholy paintings by the American artist Will Barnet. Responding to the physical and mental decline of his sister Eva; who lived alone in the family home in Beverly; Massachusetts; Barnet began work in 1990 on what became a series of nine paintings depicting Eva and other family members; as they once were and as they figured in the artists memory. Rendered in Barnets signature quiet; abstract style; the paintings; each featured in full color; present the ordinary and extraordinary aspects of a twentieth-century American family. Dumm first became acquainted with Barnet and his paintings in 2008. Given his scholarly focus on the lives of ordinary people; he was immediately attracted to the artists work. When they met; Dumm and Barnet began a friendship and dialogue that lasted until the painters death in 2012; at the age of 101. This book reflects the many discussions the two had concerning the series of paintings; Barnets family; his early life in Beverly; and his eighty-year career as a prominent New York artist. Reading the almost gothic paintings in conversation with the writers and thinkers key to both his and Barnets thinkingmdash;Emerson; Spinoza; Dickinson; Benjamin; Cavell; Nietzsche; Melvillemdash;Dumms haunting meditations evoke broader reflections on family; mortality; the uncanny; and the loss that comes with remembrance.
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