Strike fast, dance lightly : artists on boxing / contributions by Sara Cochran, Eric Fischl, Robert Lipsyte, Jonathan Rider, Arden Sherman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fischl, Eric, 1948- contributor.

Cochran, Sara, contributor.

Lipsyte, Robert, contributor.

Sherman, Arden, contributor.

Gregory R. Miller & Co., publisher.

FLAG Art Foundation, host institution.

Norton Museum of Art, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boxing in art--Exhibitions.

Boxing in art.

Genre:

exhibition catalogs.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

175 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Gregory R. Miller & Co., [2025]

Summary:

"This book documents an expansive, traveling group exhibition centered on the sport, psychology, ethos and spectacle of boxing. Artists have often gravitated toward the "sweet science" as a subject, and have investigated the boxer as an icon and metaphor for excellence, physical power, perseverance, achievement and perhaps humanity itself, representing its wins and losses, regiment and fluidity, violence and artistry. Given the wealth of depictions of boxers throughout art history, this book explores the sport as inspiration with objects and works by more than 90 artists, ranging in time from ancient to contemporary, and spanning the media of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and film. The book is fully illustrated with an extensive plate section, and features new texts by artist and Founder of the Church, Eric Fischl, as well as Sara Cochran, Jonathan Rider, Arden Sherman and Robert Lipsyte."-- description from https://www.artbook.com/9781941366554.html, accessed 20250130.

Contents:

Preface

A meditation on being an old artist / Eric Fischl

Plates: Round I. Punch drunk: in thrall to boxing / Sara Cochran

Plates: Round II. Alvin Armstrong, Angela Dufresne, and Caleb Hahne Quintana / in conversation with Jonathan Rider

Plates: Round III. The punch in pictures / Arden Sherman

Plates: Round IV. Worth fighting for? / Robert Lipsyte

Plates: Round V. Checklist

Credits

Acknowledgments.

Local Notes:

"This publication accompanies the exhibition Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing. The Church, Sag Harbor, NY: June 24-September 3, 2023; The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY: June 16-August 11, 2023; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL: October 26, 2024-March 9, 2025."--colophon.

ISBN:

1941366554

9781941366554

OCLC:

1453974187