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Sugimoto : portraits /

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Guggenheim Museum : Hardcover ed. distributed by Harry N. Abrams, ©2000.Description: 169 pages (some folded) : illustrations, portraits ; 32 cmISBN:
  • 089207227X
  • 9780892072279
  • 0810969289
  • 9780810969285
  • 3775709290
  • 9783775709293
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  • Portraits
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Contents:
Reinventing realism / Nancy Spector -- The exactness of the world : a conversation with Hiroshi Sugimoto / Tracey Bashkoff -- From oil to wax to silver : Sugimoto's portrait gallery / Carol Armstrong -- Everything we look at is a kind of Troy / Norman Bryson -- Death in the lotus position, or East Asian portraiture / Thomas Kellein.
Review: "Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto is renowned for his elegant photographic series of seascapes, theaters, museum dioramas, and Buddhist statuary. His new series presents life-size, black-and-white portraits of historical figures - Henry VIII and each of his wives, Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, Oscar Wilde, and Emperor Hirohito, among others - photographed in wax museums, isolated against black backgrounds, and dramatically lit so as to create haunting Rembrandtesque images. The series, which also includes a 25-foot, five-panel photograph of a wax effigy of Leonardo's Last Supper, emulates the grand tradition of portraiture and recalls the wax figures' sources in famous paintings by Holbein, David, Van Dyck, and Vermeer."--Jacket.
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Book Book Whitecliffe Library General Shelves General TR 647 SUG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0005657

Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, Mar. 5-May 14, 2000 and the Guggenehim Museum Bilbao, June 6-Sept. 10, 2000.

"Exhibition history and bibliography": pages 156-166.

Reinventing realism / Nancy Spector -- The exactness of the world : a conversation with Hiroshi Sugimoto / Tracey Bashkoff -- From oil to wax to silver : Sugimoto's portrait gallery / Carol Armstrong -- Everything we look at is a kind of Troy / Norman Bryson -- Death in the lotus position, or East Asian portraiture / Thomas Kellein.

"Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto is renowned for his elegant photographic series of seascapes, theaters, museum dioramas, and Buddhist statuary. His new series presents life-size, black-and-white portraits of historical figures - Henry VIII and each of his wives, Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, Oscar Wilde, and Emperor Hirohito, among others - photographed in wax museums, isolated against black backgrounds, and dramatically lit so as to create haunting Rembrandtesque images. The series, which also includes a 25-foot, five-panel photograph of a wax effigy of Leonardo's Last Supper, emulates the grand tradition of portraiture and recalls the wax figures' sources in famous paintings by Holbein, David, Van Dyck, and Vermeer."--Jacket.

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