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Title: All Creatures Great and Small by Carl Haenlein, Kiki Smith, Carsten Ahrens ISBN: 3-908247-04-7 Publisher: Scalo Verlag Ac Pub. Date: 30 September, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Simply beautiful
Comment: Kiki Smith's work may seem impossible to document in book form but this book does a terrific job of conveying the power and delicacy of her art. The reproductions are gorgeous, and the essay is extremely readable. A must for any contemporary art book collection!
Rating: 4
Summary: probably not on the bookstore shelf, but it should be
Comment: This hardback is small for an art book (measures 6 in. wide by 8 in. long), but it is packed with full-color plates of Smith's work. The book seems to have been published in connection with an exhibition at the Kestner Gesellschaft in Germany. The plates include details and installation shots from what appears to have been a large and fairly comprehensive one-person show.
Smith's work is elegant and direct, wide-ranging in subject but closely related in meaning. In his essay, Carsten Ahrens states "Kiki Smith has ....continually hinted at the close proximity between art and the ideas of Catholicism, which are similar in their belief in the spiritual potential of the physical." Though I found most of the essay difficult to digest, I consider that statement a gem. To me, Smith's art is about the frail, feeling, physical world and the force of life itself.
The back of the book features a selection of Smith's iris prints. I was delighted to discover these, as I was unaware that Smith does work in photography. I think they are quite nice, and I am impressed that she is able to work in such a range of mediums.
Though I do not consider the book a substitute for a monograph, it is an excellent resource. One star deducted for photo quality--well-composed but occasionally fuzzy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Kiki Smith is the Neil Young of the art world
Comment: Prolific and out on her own sense of self Kiki Smith is jaunting into areas both powerful and perplexing. She's not who you think she is.
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Title: Kiki Smith: Telling Tales by Helaine Posner, Kiki Smith ISBN: 0933642288 Publisher: Intl Center of Photography Pub. Date: 15 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Kiki Smith: Prints, Books and Things by Kiki Smith, Wendy Weitman, Wendy Weltman ISBN: 0870705830 Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, New York Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Tom Friedman by Bruce Hainley ISBN: 0714839868 Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: 26 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Kiki Smith by Helaine Posner, David Frankel, Kiki Smith ISBN: 0821224794 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: Kiki Smith Postcard Book by Kiki Smith ISBN: 1584180277 Publisher: Fotofolio Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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