All Creatures Great and Small New Work

Haenlein, Carl & Kiki Smith

ISBN 10: 3908247047 / ISBN 13: 9783908247043

Published by Scalo Publishers, Zurich, 1999

Gesellschaft, Geschichte, Gegenwart Series; B & W and Color; 8.36 X 6.17 X 0.77 inches; 139 pages; Hard cover has light bumping; gift inscription on front end paper, dated 7 May, 2000. DJ has light bumping, scuffing, rubbing. Pages are clean and tight, appears as if unused. Lavishly illustrated with dozens of color and b/w works, including a central gate-fold. This is an exhibition catalogue for a show at the Kestner Gesellschaft. Kiki Smith (born 1954) is a German-born American artist. Her work has addressed the themes of birth and regeneration. Her figurative work of the late 1980s and early 1990s clashed with cultural taboos surrounding bodily functions. Her earlier pieces confronted subjects such as AIDS, gender and race, while recent works have depicted the human condition in relationship to nature. Smith lives and works New York City. Seller Inventory # 8360

Synopsis:

Book by Carl Haenlein, Kiki Smith

Review: American artist Kiki Smith first received international attention in the 1980s with her sculptures and drawings of the human body. Since the beginning of the 1990s, however, she has expanded her visual vocabulary to include works that portray the larger natural world and its phenomena, such as plants and animals, stars and planets. The daughter of minimalist artist Tony Smith, she has drawn a good deal of her inspiration from the techniques and materials of past epochs, especially from traditions within the decorative arts-and-crafts movements of various world cultures. She uses a wide variety of lush and often ephemeral materials to create her pieces--bronze, gold, silver, paper, wax, glass, felt, ceramics, video, and neon among them. And she combines figuration and abstraction to explore such themes as the vulnerability and reanimation of that which is lost or dead. Smith's pieces, which draw on fables, myths, fairy tales, dreams, and her own Catholic spirituality, evoke in viewers contemplation and a desire for greater perception. Kiki Smith: All Creatures Great and Small brings together works from different periods of Smith's production over the past two decades. At 140 pages, this small, elegant hardcover (approximately eight by six inches) includes 54 color reproductions and a poetic text by Carsten Ahrens. --A.C. Smith

Bibliographic Details

Title: All Creatures Great and Small New Work
Publisher: Scalo Publishers, Zurich
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good