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The artwork of Robert Therrien makes reference to commonplace, even cliched motifs - a snowman, a cloud, a Dutch door, a bird in flight, a stack of plates. In the perfection of their proportions and the simplicity of their forms these works - sculptures, reliefs, and two-dimensional pieces - partake of a cool objectivity. Their narrative associations, however, give them the intimacy of personal history. They possess a wholesome familiarity, yet their often huge size gives them an uncanny; disquieting quality.
In this volume, which accompanies the exhibition Robert Therrien and examines the artist's work of the past decade, curator Lynn Zelevansky explores the transformation of forms that has been the hallmark of Therrien's artistic process and situates his work within contemporary art practice. Essayist Thomas Frick discusses the work vis-a-vis the formalist tradition in art and examines the paradoxical nature of its abstract and figurative aspects. In the volume's third and final essay, art historian Norman Bryson investigates the visceral effect of Therrien's sculpture on the viewer, relating its effects to the corporeal invasions and restitutions found in animated cartoons.
In this volume, which accompanies the exhibition Robert Therrien and examines the artist's work of the past decade, curator Lynn Zelevansky explores the transformation of forms that has been the hallmark of Therrien's artistic process and situates his work within contemporary art practice. Essayist Thomas Frick discusses the work vis-a-vis the formalist tradition in art and examines the paradoxical nature of its abstract and figurative aspects. In the volume's third and final essay, art historian Norman Bryson investigates the visceral effect of Therrien's sculpture on the viewer, relating its effects to the corporeal invasions and restitutions found in animated cartoons.
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About the Author:
Robert Therrien was born in Chicago and received his MFA from USC in 1974. His first museum exhibition was at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 1984; his next exhibition took place at the Museo Centro de Art Reina Sofa, Madrid. The exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, opening in February 2000, will be his third. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
Lynn Zelevansky is a curator in the modern and contemporary art department at LACMA. Her last exhibition catalogue was Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-1998 (D.A.P., 1998).
Thomas Frick is a freelance writer and an associate editor in LACMA's publications department.
Norman Bryon is professor of art history and theory at the Slade School, University College, London. He is the author of Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life Painting, among other books.
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- PublisherLos Angeles County Museum of Art
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0875871860
- ISBN 13 9780875871868
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages96
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