Charles Ray: Sculpture 1997-2014
- ISBN-10
- 3775737936
- ISBN-13
- 9783775737937
- Series
- Charles Ray
- Category
- Human figure in art
- Pages
- 160
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-06-25
- Publisher
- Hatje Cantz Pub
- Authors
- Douglas W. Druick, James Rondeau, Charles Ray
Description
Charles Ray (born 1953) 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" (2009), 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 (2014), 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.
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