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Skull / Lynn Stern ; art historical perspective, Donald Kuspit.
Fine Arts Library TR655 .S7485 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stern, Lynn, photographer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stern, Lynn.
- Photography, Artistic.
- Skull in art.
- Local Subjects:
- Stern, Lynn.
- Genre:
- Photobooks.
- Physical Description:
- 332 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Thames & Hudson, [2017]
- Summary:
- For the last twenty-five years, Lynn Stern has been photographing skulls, both human and animal, some clearly recognizable and some highly abstract. Skull presents the resulting eight series - several of which have never been seen and some not previously seen in their entirety. Her images often include the symbolic form of the circle, alluding to both the emptiness of infinity as well as the possibility of oneness. Formally distinct yet overlapping thematically, these series offer a powerful exploration of the idea of death. Unlike many photographers, Stern has no interest in representing people, places or things, aiming instead to 'de-literalize whatever I photograph.' An extended essay by renowned art critic Donald Kuspit contextualizes Stern's work within art history through comparisons with paintings, sculptures and photographs made during the last seven centuries of western art. It accompanies nearly 150 tritone and quadratone reproductions of Stern's photographs, as well as forty colour illustrations of other artists' work.
- Contents:
- A love / hate relationships
- Subliminal presence
- Phallic match
- Seen / Unseen
- Light void / Dark void
- Solitary Skull
- Profane Modernity
- Sacred Light
- Objects of Feeling
- Thinking the Unthinkable
- Ambivalent Symbol
- Mirror Self
- Dreaming Death
- Death, the Intruder
- Gesture / Emotion
- Transformation
- The Look of Death I
- The Look of Death II
- Death Reversed
- The Animal Self
- Invading Our Space
- Holes and Wholes
- Full Circle
- Interior Reality
- Aggression Untamed
- The Gaoing Mouth
- Striations
- Shadowed Self.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780500970836
- 0500970831
- OCLC:
- 975366074
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