Kiki Smith: A Gathering, 1980-2005
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (760 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0935640797 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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She co-curated, with Maura Reilly, the acclaimed exhibition Global Feminisms (2007).Marina Warner is Professor of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex and a distinguished writer of fiction, criticism, and history. She is Professor and Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at the University at Alba
The artist has more recently considered fairy tales and folk narratives as well as nurturing a growing menagerie of work concerned with animals and the natural world. Her subject matter is as wide-ranging as the materials her work has encompassed. Organized by the Walker Art Center with the full collaboration of the artist, the exhibition Kiki Smith represents the artist's first full-scale monograph.. Her re-imaginings of biblical women as inhabitants of physical bodies--rather than as abstract bearers of doctrine--led her to make series of sculptural works related to the figure of the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, Lilith and others. In the 1980s, with her earliest figural sculptures in plaster, glass and wax, Smith developed an elaborate vocabulary around the forms and functions of the body and its metaphorical as well as physical relationship to society. By the early 1990s, she began to engage with themes of a more religious and mythological nature.
Her novel "No Lease on Life "and her second essay collection "What Would Lynne Tillman Do? "were nominated, respectively, for a National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction (1998) and in Criticism (2014). . About the Author Lynne Tillman is the author of five novels, four collections of short stories, two collection of essays and two other nonfiction books. Her major books include Courbet, Representing Women, and Women, Art, and Power. She is Professor and Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at the University at Albany, a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as an Arts Writers grant from the Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital (2015).Linda Nochlin is a highly celebrated feminist art historian. She is the Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art Emerita at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She co-curated, with Maura Reilly, the acclaimed exhibition Global Fe
"One Star" according to Tanya E Hartman. Book is tiny and has no color illustrations.. really beautiful Kiki Smith book Sheri Granberry I was looking for a Kiki Smith book for my daughter, but was unsure which one to choose. This one is great!. A Retrospective of a Great Artist Timothy P. Ojile This volume is one of the best written books about a living artist in our time with an informative timeline of the artist's life and achievements. Artwork is beautifully reproduced and delineated. This volume will soon be out of print.