Michele Oka Doner: Natural Seduction

RAMLJAK, Suzanne

ISBN 10: 1555952151 / ISBN 13: 9781555952150

Published by Hudson Hills Press, 2003

About this Item

12.25 x 10.25. 198 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original gold boards; dust jacket. First edition. Boldly inscribed by Michele Oka Donor on the half-title in 2013. "This exceptional volume presents the breadth of Doner's work as found in collections across the country as well as expansive projects designed for public spaces" (the publisher). A fine copy.

Seller Inventory # 406358

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Michele Oka Doner: Natural Seduction
• Publisher: Hudson Hills Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555952151
• ISBN 13: 9781555952150
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art Monographs
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Synopsis

The evolution and cultural implications of the artist's remarkable sculpture, furniture, jewellery, public art commissions, and functional objects. Oka Doner translates organic forms into objects of natural seduction.

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Michele Oka Doner
Natural Seduction

Suzanne Ramljak,
Morris Lapidus, Arthur C. Danto
Forward by Mitchell Wolfson Jr.

Michele Oka Doner is an internationally acclaimed artist and designer whose prolific career spans four decades. This sumptuously illustrated monograph surveys the remarkable breadth of her artistic production, which encompasses sculpture, furniture, jewelry, public art, and functional objects from fireplace tools to teething rings. Oka Doner is perhaps best known for her numerous public art commissions, including those at New York s Herald Square Subway Station and the Miami International Airport. Whether large-scale architectural projects, or intimately scaled objects, all of Oka Doner s work is fueled by a lifelong study and appreciation of the natural world, from which she derives her formal vocabulary. Aptly called "nature s scribe," she translates organic forms into objects of natural seduction. Oka Doner s oeuvre is one seamless gesture, aimed at infusing our experience with beauty and wonder.

This valuable study examines the evolution and cultural implications of Oka Doner s exceptional art, featuring essays by Suzanne Ramljak, art historian, editor of Metalsmith, and former editor of Sculpture; Arthur C. Danto, Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University, and art critic for The Nation; the late Morris Lapidus, architect of many South Florida landmarks including Miami Beach s Fontainebleau hotel; and Mitchell Wolfson Jr., founder of The Wolfsonian Museum and publisher of The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts.

Cover:
Radiant Disk Table, 1i995 (detail)
Bronze
29 ½ x 29 ½ x 76 in.