David Altmejd
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (591 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 8862083459 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Incredible Danielle Laberge For everyone interested in contemporary art (and for those who don't know a lot but are curious) this is a must.. jeff elliott said Finest Contemporary Artist!. A must have expansive essay of one of the today's finest contemporary artists. This is The best survey to date of Altmejd's work.. Lauren R said Five Stars. This a great book with beautiful photos of Altmejd's work thus far. Highly recommend purchasing.
(David Velasco Bookforum 2014-04-01) . This handsome catalogue-edited by book savant Isabel Venero and featuring texts by quixotic young writers such as Trinie Dalton, Christopher Glazek, and Kevin McGarry-gives Altmejd good face. It also provides a few useful revelations
. Christopher Glazek writes on a variety of cultural subjects, including art, for Artforum, the esteemed literary journal N Plus One Magazine, and the New Yorker, among others. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum, New York; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Trinie Dalton is a writer of fiction and short stories, as well as
Organized roughly chronologically, with an extensive art historical essay by Robert Hobbs as well as pithy contributions from the other esteemed writers forming the connective tissue between expansive sections of color plates, one can trace the many through-lines that the artist has developed and reworked during his career. Seamlessly moving between a variety of aesthetic modes--from an almost ascetic minimalism in works employing plaster and mirror to works teeming with accumulations of crystals, gold chain, thread, taxidermied birds and animals, among other objects--Altmejd's work offers beautifully wrought meditations on the cycles of life and death, interiority and exteriority, sexuality and spirituality. The book affords a close and intimate view of the inspired and wholly unique work that brought him to prominence in the early 2000s, while also providing a sense of the breadth and scope of his polymath-like creativity and inventiveness in work less well-known or chronicled.. David Altmejd (born 1974) is known for his intricate and highly worked room-size installations and sculptures. In the most comprehensive consideration of the artist's work to date, the volume includes four essays by a range of writers, who by providing different entry points to Altmejd's