Mary Frank - Hardcover

Herrera, Hayden

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810933012 ISBN 13: 9780810933019

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 1990

Synopsis

Throughout her career, Mary Frank's art has been continually developing within a series of broad themes, new compositions, new mediums, and new sensations. In this monograph of Mary Frank's career to date, the author traces the evolution of the artist's sculpture - in wood, wax, plaster and clay.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Mary Frank's ceramic sculptures and paintings on glass and metal combine myths, omens, lion-women, glimpses of dreams. Rather than illustrating myths literally, the artist often makes figures that embody the myth-making urge. A terra-cotta Persephone swells with plenitude, but her body is a fragile shell, one concave arm flung back as if inviting embrace. Frank's ceramics, intentionally fragmented, resemble objects found on an archeological dig, yet they are distinctly modern. Herrera, biographer of Frida Kahlo, illuminates the sources of Frank's creativity in this beautifully illustrated biographical-critical monograph. Monoprints of lovers, dinosaur skeletons and male heads extend the artist's imaginative realm. Also here are her "shadow papers," constructions with light-filled openings along the paper's cut edges, where actual shadows give a semblance of substance by mimicking plastic modeling.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0810933012
• ISBN 13: 9780810933019
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 148