Erik Schmidt : Hunting Ground

Sebastian Preuss and Niels Werber; Edited by Marta Herford and Esther Ruelfs

ISBN 10: 3775718273 / ISBN 13: 9783775718271

Published by Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2007

About this Item

160 pp., 120 illustratons in color. First edition. Text is in German and English. Pictorial boards. Biography and bibliography.

Seller Inventory # 009630

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Erik Schmidt : Hunting Ground
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3775718273
• ISBN 13: 9783775718271
• Binding: Cloth
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art: Painting
  • Art: Video Art
  • Art: Monographs

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Synopsis

Erik Schmidt has hunting fever. This, his latest work, focuses on the sport as used in the aristocracy to stage-manage social image. Hunting is a social game, a fixed convention--and so the artist lay in wait, observed the codes, apparel and gestures, and was allowed to slip into character. The resulting works in film and painting pick up on the sport's classic visual theme, but Schmidt's plan of attack is conceptual: In taking on the role of the hunter, he reimagines the dialectic between hunter and hunted, perpetrator and victim. Hunting Grounds not only elucidates the sport's social and symbolic consequences and explores ideas of masculinity, but also reveals and engages our enduring fascination with this archaic, male-dominated world.