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Sculpture Undone, 1955-1972
"A sculptor who began working during the postwar period in a classical figurative style, Alina Szapocznikow radically reconceptualized sculpture as an imprint not only of memory but also of her own body. Though her career effectively spanned less than two decades (cut short by the artist's premature death in 1973 at age 47), Szapocznikow left behind a legacy of provocative objects that evoke Surrealism, Nouveau Râealisme, and Pop art. Her tinted polyester casts of body parts, often transformed into everyday objects like lamps or ashtrays; her poured polyurethane forms; and her elaborately constructed sculptures, which at times incorporated photographs, clothing, or car parts, all remain as ...
To Exalt the Ephemeral: Alina Szapocznikow, 1962-1972
Sensuality and abjection in the sculpture of an artist who expressed the female experience unapologetically and presciently This catalog considers the pivotal turning points in the Polish artist Alina Szapocznikow's (1926-73) life and career from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. It considers her experimental approach to materials, ranging from plaster and bronze to her groundbreaking use of polyester resin in the mid-1960s. Szapocznikow's work maps her engagement with her own body as it transformed from healthy to ailing. Her art amounts to a powerful meditation on what she once described as "a fleeting instant, a trivial instant ... our terrestrial passage." These sensual casts and sculptures of body parts are ecstatic and abject, playful and disturbing, direct and elusive. Unapologetic in their expression of the female experience, including that of terminal illness, Szapocznikow's works remain hauntingly relevant today. Featuring new photography, the publication aims to render the tactility and spatiality of these works in brilliant new detail.
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Lovely, Human, True, Heartfelt
The correspondence between Polish sculptor Alina Szapocznikow and art historian Ryszard Stanislawski is published here for the first time.
Awkward Objects
"Texts ... are a selected record of the international conference 'Alina Szapocznikow: Works. Documents. Interpretations' (15-16 May 2009) at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, convened in conjunction with the exhibition 'Awkward Objects'." --P. 286.
Material Meanings
Featuring highlights from Constance R. Caplan's noted collection of 20th- and 21st-century art, this publication considers artworks from different media as material objects.
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Alina Szapocznikow
Focusing on the past ten years of the artist's, Alina Szapocznikow (1926-1973) career, who died prematurely, it reveals nearly one hundred drawings, the great majority of which have never previously been presented.
The Object
Discussions of the object as a key to understanding central aspects of modern and contemporary art. Artists increasingly refer to "post-object-based" work while theorists engage with material artifacts in culture. A focus on "object-based" learning treats objects as vectors for dialogue across disciplines. Virtual imaging enables the object to be abstracted or circumvented, while immaterial forms of labor challenge materialist theories. This anthology surveys such reappraisals of what constitutes the "objectness" of production, with art as its focus. Among the topics it examines are the relation of the object to subjectivity; distinctions between objects and things; the significance of the o...
