Eve Sussman & The Rufus Corporation: The Rape of the Sabine Women - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8791607620 ISBN 13: 9788791607622

Publisher: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2009

Synopsis

Brooklyn-based Eve Sussman founded the Rufus Corporation, an ad hoc group of artists, dancers, actors and musicians who create videos, photographs and live events, in 2003. This volume compiles film stills from two works for which Sussman and her collaborators are most known. "89 Seconds at Alcázar" (2004) is a high-definition video tableau inspired by Diego Velázquez's painting "Las Meninas" (1656). The piece focuses on the 89 seconds when the Spanish royal family and their courtiers would have been in the exact configuration portrayed in the painting. The Rape of the Sabine Women--featuring a mesmerizing score composed by Jonathan Bepler--is an allegorical video that conflates the myth of Romulus' founding of Rome with David's painting "Intervention of the Sabine Women" (1796-99). It is set in an idealized, cinematic version of the 1960s that includes G-men and a decadent party in a chic International Style summer home.

Edition details

• Publisher: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8791607620
• ISBN 13: 9788791607622
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80