Vital Signs
artists and the body
$72.00
- Hardcover
176 pages
- Release Date
11 February 2025
Summary
Vital Signs: The Body in Abstraction
Vital Signs looks closely at how abstraction is often intimately tied with expansive, fluid ideas of the bodily.
Vital Signs looks closely at how abstraction is often intimately tied with expansive, fluid ideas of the bodily. Bringing together seemingly unalike categories-masculine/feminine, figurative/abstract, self/other, exotic/banal-into newly fused configurations, the publication shows how artists h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781633451650 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1633451658 |
| Author: | Lanka Tattersall, Precious Okoyomon, Cyrus Grace Dunham |
| Publisher: | Museum of Modern Art |
| Imprint: | Museum of Modern Art |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 11 February 2025 |
| Weight: | 1.00kg |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 276mm x 240mm |
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A number of artists have brought together abstraction and the human form as a means to imagine how boundaries between the human and non-human might be transcended, often through a fantastical merging with other animals or entities.– “Mousse Magazine”
About The Author
Lanka Tattersall
Lanka Tattersall is the Laurenz Foundation Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Precious Okoyomon is an artist and poet.
Cyrus Dunham is a writer, actor, and activist. Dunham’s debut book, A Year Without a Name: A Memoir (2021), was a Lambda Literary Award finalist.
Margarita Lizcano Hernandez is a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Drawings and Prints at MoMA.
Sheldon Gooch is a Curatorial Assistant at MoMA PS1.
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