Vanitas: Meditations on Life and Death in Contemporary Art - Softcover

Ravenal, John B.

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9780917046551: Vanitas: Meditations on Life and Death in Contemporary Art

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ISBN 10: 0917046552 ISBN 13: 9780917046551

Publisher: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2004

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With references to the Bible and 17th-century Dutch still-life painting, Vanitas links the works of fourteen contemporary artists to the age-old theme of life's transience. At the same time, it presents these artists in their 20th-century context while exploring the related themes of beauty and death, pleasure and fear, love and loss. The book focuses on contemporary sculpture and installation art using non-traditional forms, materials, and processes.

The artists included-from Warsaw, Paris, New York, London, Sao Paulo-are Miroslaw Balka, Chris Boltanski, Willie Cole, Leonardo Drew, Tony Feher, Robert Gober, Felix Gonzalez, Mona Hatoum, Jim Hodges, Anish Kapoor, Jac Lairner, Zoe Leonard, Gabriel Orozco, Rachel Whiteread, and Yukinori Yanagi.

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Book Description:

With references to the Bible and 17th-century Dutch still-life painting, Vanitas links the works of fourteen contemporary artists to the age-old theme of life?s transience.

About the Author:

John Ravenal is currently Curator of Art After 1900 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. Ravenal was Associate Curator of 20th-Century Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 1997-98 and Assistant Curator of 20th-Century Art from 1991-97. In addition to Vanitas: Meditations on Life and Death in Contemporary Art, he has authored Twenty Philadelphia Artists: Celebrating Fleisher Challenge at Twenty and Sidney Goodman: Paintings and Drawings 1959-95.

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