A07=Nairy Baghramian
A14=Julie Mehretu
A14=Kate Nesin
A14=Paulina Pobocha
A23=Jeremy Strick
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
automatic-update
B01=Catherine Craft
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=AFKB
Category=AGB
COP=United States
Delivery_Pre-order
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Language_English
PA=Temporarily unavailable
Price_€50 to €100
PS=Active
softlaunch
Product details
- ISBN 9781636811239
- Dimensions: 222 x 298mm
- Publication Date: 14 Mar 2024
- Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
New sculptures and installations that critically examine the formal, social and linguistic roles of live models
Published with Nasher Sculpture Center.
Over the past three decades, Iranian-born, German-based artist Nairy Baghramian (born 1971) has created sculptures and installations that upend expected modes of presentation and challenge the architectural, social, political and historical contexts that inform them.
The new works featured in this publication explore the provisional body as the site of trauma—drawing inspiration from the tradition of the “modèle vivant,” the French term for a live model in an art class. In her "ambivalently abstract" works, the artist takes unconventional approaches to materials associated with sculptural traditions of casting, including aluminum, lead, steel and wax. In conversation with sculptures from the Nasher’s permanent collection by Louise Bourgeois, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and others, Baghramian’s works offer new ways to think about representations of bodies and the unseen labor of models, as well as the linguistic play afforded by different meanings of the word “model” and its linguistic relatives, such as “modulate” and “modify.”
