Doris Salcedo : the materiality of mourning / Mary Schneider Enriquez ; with contributions by Doris Salcedo and Narayan Khandekar
By: Schneider Enriquez, Mary [author]
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Contributor(s): Salcedo, Doris | Khandekar, Narayan | Harvard Art Museums [organizer,, host institution].
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BookPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Art Museums, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: xix, 175 pages ; 27 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780300222517 (hardback); 1891771698; 9781891771699 ; 0300222513.Other title: Materiality of mourning.Subject(s): Salcedo, Doris, 1958- -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 730.92 SAL | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 730.92 SAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00230734 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A compelling look at Doris Salcedo's works from the past fifteen years, exploring how the artist challenges not only the limits of the materials she uses but also the traditions of sculpture itself
Colombian sculptor and installation artist Doris Salcedo (b. 1958) creates works that address political violence and oppression. This pioneering book, which focuses on Salcedo's works from 2001 to the present, examines the development and evolution of her approach. These sculptures have pushed toward new extremes, incorporating organic materials--rose petals, grass, soil--in order to blur the line between the permanent and the ephemeral.
This insightful text illuminates the artist's practice: exhaustive personal interviews and deep research joined with painstaking acts of making that both challenge limits and set new directions in materiality. Mary Schneider Enriquez convincingly argues for viewing Salcedo's oeuvre not just through a particular theoretical lens, such as violence studies or trauma and memory studies, but for the profound way the artist engages with and expands the traditions of sculpture as a medium.
Distributed for the Harvard Art Museums
Exhibition Schedule:
Harvard Art Museums
(11/04/16-04/09/17)
"This publication accompanies the exhibition Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning, on view at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, from November 4, 2016 through April 9, 2017."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-170) and index.
In Context : Violence and Contemporary Art in Colombia -- Salcedo's Influences : Artists, Works, Practices -- The Six Visual Strategies -- Organic and Ephemeral : Materiality in Salcedo's Most Recent Works -- Coda -- Inherent Vice and the Ship of Theseus / Narayan Khandekar -- Artist Biography and Exhibition History.