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by: Jeffrey Deitch, Pawel Althamer, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Maurizio Cattelan, Ashley Bickerton, John Bock, Paul Chan, George Condo, Nigel Cooke, Folkert de Jong, Barnaby Furnas, Robert Gober, Matt Greene, Tim Hawkinson, David Johansen, Chris Johanson  List Price: $65.00 Amazon.com's Price: $49.40 You Save: $15.60 (24%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 708 EAN: 9780977868674 ISBN: 0977868672 Label: Deste Foundation Manufacturer: Deste Foundation Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 216 Publication Date: February 01, 2008 Publisher: Deste Foundation Release Date: February 01, 2008 Studio: Deste Foundation Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: A culture's body image, as refracted through its art, will usually provide a more telling account of its preoccupations than the most explicit political art; it seems that cultural symptoms leak more readily into depictions of the body than into more overt statements. This is especially true in periods of heightened alienation, when the solitary figure gains poignancy, but bodies register their eras in many ways: the signifiers of opulence, imperialism, fashion, social decay, sexual convention and anxiety can all be readily inscribed onto the human form in art--and indeed, always have been. Fractured Figure projects our millennial moment as one of fragile bodies pitched against a restless, dysphasic backdrop, in which terrorism and global warming impinge as daily realities. It draws on the world-renowned contemporary collection of Dakis Joannou, who, in collaboration with Jeffrey Deitch, has previously organized shows such as Artificial Nature and Post Human, in which similar concerns have arisen. Here, in works by Chris Ofili, David Altmejd, Richard Prince, Urs Fischer, Pawel Althamer, Ashley Bickerton, Barnaby Furnas and others, the figure is shown as un-idealized and compellingly mortal--situated in a realm that we will immediately recognize as our own. 
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