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The first book to devote serious attention to questions of scale in contemporary sculpture, this study considers the phenomenon within the interlinked cultural and socio-historical framework of the legacies of postmodern theory and the growth of global capitalism. In particular, the book traces the impact of postmodern theory on concepts of measurement and exaggeration, and analyses the relationship between this philosophy and the sculptural trend that has developed since the early 1990s. Rachel Wells examines the arresting international trend of sculpture exploring scale, including American precedents from the 1970s and 1980s and work by the 'Young British Artists'. Noting that the emergenc...
Of Mice and Men ISBN 3-7757-1765-X / 978-3-7757-1765-6 Hardcover, 8 x 11 in. / 344 pgs / 250 color. / U.S. $40.00 CDN $48.00 August / Art
Published to accompany exhibition held at the Saatchi Gallery, London, September - November 1997.
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Omfatter værker af Stephan Balkenhol, Sophie Calle, Saint Clair Cemin, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Jeff Koons, Glenn Ligon, Christian Marclay, Julio Galán, Robert Gober, Andreas Gursky, Ann Hamilton, Gary Hill, Jenny Holzer, Narelle Jubelin, Mike Kelley, Jon Kessler, Juan Muñoz, Simon Patterson, Philip Taaffe, Boyd Webb, Tim Rollins + K.O.S., Rachel Whiteread
Ruff's most recent series, entitled MA.R.S., is a combination of the visual data obtained during explorations of Mars and the technological sophistication achieved in images on interplanetary space.
The representation of the nude in art remained for many centuries a victory of fiction over fact. Beautiful, handsome, flawless its great success was to distance the unclothed body from any uncomfortably explicit taint of sexuality, eroticism or imperfection. In this newly updated study, Frances Borzello contrasts the civilized, sanitized, perfected nude of Kenneth Clarks classic, The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (1956), with todays depictions: raw, uncomfortable, both disturbing and intriguing. Grittier and more subtle, depicting variously gendered bodies, the new nude asks awkward questions and behaves provocatively. It is a very naked nude, created to deal with the issues and contradiction...