Kiki Smith

by Smith, Kiki

• ISBN13: 9780935640793
• ISBN10: 0935640797
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-01
• Publisher: Walker Art Center

Summary

Widely considered to be one of the most engaging and fascinating artists of our time, Kiki Smith has, over the past 25 years, developed into a major figure in the world of twenty-first-century art. Her subject matter is as wide-ranging as the materials her work has encompassed. In the 1980s, with her earliest figural sculptures in plaster, glass and wax, Smith developed an elaborate vocabulary around the forms and functions of the body and its metaphorical as well as physical relationship to society. By the early 1990s, she began to engage with themes of a more religious and mythological nature. Her re-imaginings of biblical women as inhabitants of physical bodies--rather than as abstract bearers of doctrine--led her to make series of sculptural works related to the figure of the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, Lilith and others. The artist has more recently considered fairy tales and folk narratives as well as nurturing a growing menagerie of work concerned with animals and the natural world. Smith has now earned a considerable reputation as a virtuoso printmaker and draftsperson, and as a re-inventor of the startling sculptural possibilities present in materials ranging from paper and resin to bronze and porcelain. Organized by the Walker Art Center with the full collaboration of the artist, the exhibition Kiki Smithrepresents the artist's first full-scale monograph.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 14
Acknowledgments	p. 16
Introduction: Making Things	p. 18
Unholy Postures: Kiki Smith and the Body	p. 30
Conversation with Kiki Smith	p. 38
Wolf-girl, Soul-bird: The Mortal Art of Kiki Smith	p. 42
Chronology	p. 54
Artist's Insert: Thicket	p. 80
Plates	p. 97
Plate List	p. 257
Selected Exhibition History	p. 263
Selected Bibliography	p. 273
Reproduction Credits	p. 287
Index	p. 289
Lenders to the Exhibition	p. 294
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