Daughter of art history : photographs /

By:

Morimura, Yasumasa, 1951-

1931788073
9781931788076

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

TR647 .M664 2003

Contents:

Art's identity crisis: Yasumasa Morimura's photographs / Donald Kuspit -- Photographs -- About my work / Yasumasa Morimura -- List of works.

Subject: Since the eighties Yasumasa Morimura has been invading the canon of Western art--offering both wry commentary and loving tribute--by replacing the figures and faces of its masterpieces with his own. After painstakingly recreating the surroundings of some of the most iconic paintings Morimura assumes their subjects' identities through elaborate makeup and costume and inserts himself into the scene. Daughter of Art History includes a foreword by art historian Donald Kuspit who describes Morimura's art as "a kind of Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk, in which painting, sculpture, and photography form a seamless conceptual whole. His photographs may be mock masterpieces, but they are nonetheless masterpieces, for they show mastery of three mediums usually regarded as irreconcilable.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Whitecliffe Library General Shelves	General	TR 647 MOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		0006513

Art's identity crisis: Yasumasa Morimura's photographs / Donald Kuspit -- Photographs -- About my work / Yasumasa Morimura -- List of works.

Since the eighties Yasumasa Morimura has been invading the canon of Western art--offering both wry commentary and loving tribute--by replacing the figures and faces of its masterpieces with his own. After painstakingly recreating the surroundings of some of the most iconic paintings Morimura assumes their subjects' identities through elaborate makeup and costume and inserts himself into the scene. Daughter of Art History includes a foreword by art historian Donald Kuspit who describes Morimura's art as "a kind of Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk, in which painting, sculpture, and photography form a seamless conceptual whole. His photographs may be mock masterpieces, but they are nonetheless masterpieces, for they show mastery of three mediums usually regarded as irreconcilable.