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Charles Ray: Sculpture, 1997-2014

Bernhard Mendes Burgi

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Charles Ray is one of America's most outstanding contemporary sculptors. Like Jeff Koons and Katharina Fritsch, he has developed a new kind of plastic figuration, as can be seen in his white-painted steel sculpture -Boy with Frog- , whose recent installation on the Punta della Dogana in Venice drew a great deal of critical and popular attention. Despite its apparent naturalism, Ray's oversized figure of a nude boy frolicking animatedly, even rabidly, with the animal world, verges upon the classical. -Horse and Rider, - a self-portrait of the artist on horseback , likewise revives the traditional images of the horseback rider and the hero of the American West, but in a way that is decidedly anti-heroic. This volume offers a comprehensive monograph on Ray's sculptural works of recent years.

Pages: 160

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Release: August 31, 2014

ISBN: 3775737936

ISBN 13: 9783775737937

Charles Ray: Sculpture, 1997-2014

Bernhard Mendes Burgi

5/5 ( ratings)

Charles Ray is one of America's most outstanding contemporary sculptors. Like Jeff Koons and Katharina Fritsch, he has developed a new kind of plastic figuration, as can be seen in his white-painted steel sculpture -Boy with Frog- , whose recent installation on the Punta della Dogana in Venice drew a great deal of critical and popular attention. Despite its apparent naturalism, Ray's oversized figure of a nude boy frolicking animatedly, even rabidly, with the animal world, verges upon the classical. -Horse and Rider, - a self-portrait of the artist on horseback , likewise revives the traditional images of the horseback rider and the hero of the American West, but in a way that is decidedly anti-heroic. This volume offers a comprehensive monograph on Ray's sculptural works of recent years.

Pages: 160

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Release: August 31, 2014

ISBN: 3775737936

ISBN 13: 9783775737937

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