Catherine Wagner: Cross Sections [SIGNED]

WAGNER, Catherine, BUTLER, Cornelia, HELFAND, Glen, PEAT, F. David

ISBN 10: 0938175246 / ISBN 13: 9780938175247

Published by Twin Palms Publishers, in association with The San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California and The American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2001

About this Item

First edition, first printing. Signed by Wagner. Hardcover. Blue cloth with debossed title in silver on spine, with dust jacket. Photographs by Catherine Wagner. Essays (in English) by Cornelia Butler, Glen Helfand and F. David Peat. Includes contributors' biographies and an exhibition checklist. Designed by Martin Venezky of Appetite Engineers in San Francisco. 94 pp. with numerous black and white plates and reference illustrations. 12-3/8 x 12-3/8 inches. This first edition was limited to 3000 hardbound copies, only 2000 of which are publicly distributed. New in New dust jacket (opened only for signature). Published on the occasion of the 2001 exhibition Catherine Wagner: Cross Sections at The San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California. From the San Jose Museum of Art: "This is the first exhibition to present Wagner's most recent body of work in its entirety, representing an important stage in this internationally recognized artist's career-long examination of the building blocks of life. In Cross Sections, Wagner has incorporated state-of-the-art Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technology and medical research findings to produce beautiful and provocative black and white images that examine life from the inside out." Signed by Author.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Catherine Wagner: Cross Sections [SIGNED]
• Publisher: Twin Palms Publishers, in association with The San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California and The American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0938175246
• ISBN 13: 9780938175247
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

The Cross Sections works are stunning in their beauty, yet they point to how unfamiliar we are wiith out own ominpresent foundations. We find in these images an energized tension between their visual appeal and the challenge to understand what they reveal. Wagner manages to make the process reassuring as she brings us inside, closer to our core than we may ever have been before. -Glen Helfand

Reviews

From the mundane cantaloupe and onion, to the more exotic shark teeth and pomegranates, to the downright elusive dividing cells, various objects give up their interior secrets to Wagner, an award-winning San Francisco-born photographer. Wagner started this latest series during a two-year artist residency at the San Jose Museum of Art and at the Weizmann Institute, a scientific research facility in Israel. To make the images, Wagner used scientific Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technology. The cross sections of objects she has captured and arranged are quietly abstract, at once ghostly and dazzling; the black-and-white images seem familiar, like X-rays or views of outer space, but their composition, digital reiteration, and amazing detail are all marks of the artist's choices. The book (a catalog for an exhibit at San Jose Museum of Art) is gorgeous, the images bleed to the edges, and informative essays describe Wagner's earlier work and her progressive study of the relationship between art and science. Wagner's foray into new technologies and ways of seeing is a great example of how art can be forwarded by openness to seemingly unusual possibilities. Recommended for large photography collections. Debora Miller, Minneapolis
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