Doris Salcedo : the materiality of mourning
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Art Museums, [2016]Distributor: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]Description: xix, 175 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cmISBN:- 9780300222517
- 9781891771699
- 1891771698
- 0300222513
- Materiality of mourning
- NB379.S25 A4 2016
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Whitecliffe Library General Shelves | General | N 6679 SAL SCH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0013789 |
"This publication accompanies the exhibition Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning, on view at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, from November 4, 2016 through April 9, 2017."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-170) and index.
In Context : Violence and Contemporary Art in Colombia -- Salcedo's Influences : Artists, Works, Practices -- The Six Visual Strategies -- Organic and Ephemeral : Materiality in Salcedo's Most Recent Works -- Coda -- Inherent Vice and the Ship of Theseus / Narayan Khandekar -- Artist Biography and Exhibition History.
A compelling look at Doris Salcedo's works from the past fifteen years, exploring how the artist challenges not only the limits of the materials she uses but also the traditions of sculpture itself. Colombian sculptor and installation artist Doris Salcedo (b. 1958) creates works that address political violence and oppression. This pioneering book, which focuses on Salcedo's works from 2001 to the present, examines the development and evolution of her approach. These sculptures have pushed toward new extremes, incorporating organic materials-rose petals, grass, soil-in order to blur the line between the permanent and the ephemeral. This insightful text illuminates the artist's practice: exhaustive personal interviews and deep research joined with painstaking acts of making that both challenge limits and set new directions in materiality. Mary Schneider Enriquez convincingly argues for viewing Salcedo's oeuvre not just through a particular theoretical lens, such as violence studies or trauma and memory studies, but for the profound way the artist engages with and expands the traditions of sculpture as a medium