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Název:		Joel-Peter Witkin
Autor:		Parry, Eugenia
Rok vydání:		2007
Identifikátory:		9780714847870

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Anotace:	Joel-Peter Witkin is one of the most controversial artists working today, unsurprising for an artist whose career began photographing sideshow performers at Coney Island as a teenager and who cites his witnessing of the decapitation of a child in an accident as an influential childhood experience. Witkin's extraordinary visual sensibility produces shocking, yet undeniably compelling tableaux that enact macabre deviant dreams and that find beauty in the grotesque, the different, or the unusual.<br> <br> `The thinking Goth's favorite artist', `Part Hieronymus Bosch, part <i>Texas Chainsaw Massacre</i>' - many definitions have been offered for the unique vision of Witkin, but his extraordinary body of work does not allow for any simplistic definition. His photography both explicitly references and continues the tradition of the great artists of Western art history such as Bosch, Goya, and Velazquez, referring to the historical and mythological figures and symbols of these artists' paintings. Yet Witkin also reinterprets the nineteenth-century fascination with the bearded lady, the Siamese twin, the giantess - the `circus freak'. In an advertisement for models, her reveals the extent of his subject matter: `Pinheads, dwarfs, giants, hunchbacks, pre-op transsexuals, bearded women, people with tails, wings, reversed hands or feet - hermaphrodites and teratoids (alive or dead), anyone bearing the wounds of Christ.' He exalts his subjects by setting them in a fine art context, and offers up still-lifes often featuring dismembered bodies or delicately posed cadavers to create images rich with meaning that force us to examine the human condition.<br> <br> This book is the best introduction to Witkin's work, featuring 55 images that offer the full range of Witkin's subject matter and visual expression. The essay by Eugenia Parry explains Witkin's contribution to art history and reveals the influences on his work. Each photograph is accompanied by a commentary, written by the author, that enables the reader to understand the background of each image and reveals extra information about the individual subjects, making it of interest to readers both new to and already acquainted with Witkin's body of work.
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