STILL STANDING: ANTONY GORMLEY AT THE HERMITAGE.

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ISBN 10: 1906257094 / ISBN 13: 9781906257095

Published by SP THAMES & HUDSON, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: STILL STANDING: ANTONY GORMLEY AT THE HERMITAGE.
• Publisher: SP THAMES & HUDSON
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1906257094
• ISBN 13: 9781906257095
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: International Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

• Accompanies an exhibition at the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, from September 23, 2011- January 15, 2012 This book is made up of nine classical sculptures from the Hermitage Museum, removed from their plinths and repositioned to share a raised floor with the viewer; and seventeen highly abstracted body-forms by Antony Gormley. The idea is to juxtapose ancient, idealized statues with Gormley's more disinterested sculptures and see whether, in Gormley's work, the abstract language of Euclidean geometry can make a shelter for feeling, and whether, in the case of the classical works, demounting and putting the viewer on the same level as their original makers can re-establish them as made things. The interaction of the public, captured in documentary photographs, is key to a project that aims to show how classical marbles, Gormley's own sculptures and the living human visitors inhabit the same space and can converse with each other.

About the Author

Margaret Iversen is Professor of Art History at the University of Essex and one of the leading international authorities in the field of art theory and contemporary art; her main focus of study is psychoanalytic art theory. In 2007 she publishedBeyond Pleasure: Freud, Lacan, Barthes (2007), and she is currently working on a book on photography and art since the Sixties.

Dimitri Ozerkov is head of the Contemporary Art department and 20/21 project at the Hermitage Museum, responsible for bringing contemporary art exhibitions to St Petersburg.

Anna Trofimova is head of the department of Classical Antiquities at the Hermitage Museum.