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Blumenfeld (Hardcover)
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Commanding presences meet us in the work of Helaine Blumenfeld. The
body, nature, and emotional forces strike us immediately. The bloom
of white marble and the more visceral forces revealed by bronze
images need to be explored and even deciphered. We wonder how these
tantalizing and ambiguous sculptures came into being. The human
body is apparent, but often we cannot quite "find" it. Pleasure,
pain, struggle, and release are here as well, and we can find
poise, balance, and beauty. Much of the most powerful work returns
to the basic female dilemma of being divided, conflicted in some
way--in spirit, in attitude, and indeed many times in form.
Blumenfeld is one of the rare sculptors who does not pass the work
on to the convenient craftsman, but rather plays a handson role
from start to finish. Completing her models in one of the several
studios she works in, she follows through, selecting the stone and
watching over the pointing up production as well as carving with
chisel and power compressor. The material presents a technical
challenge that she relishes, enjoying the different qualities of
stone and color as well as relative translucency and light. In the
footsteps of the great Italian stone carvers, she embraces both the
challenge and the result. Blumenfeld was produced to accompany
Letting Go, the 2014 Robert Bowman exhibition of Blumenfeld's work.
Texts and commentary by the artist give arresting insight into both
the creative, emotional geneses of her works and the materialities
used to realize them. Introductory texts by both Karen Wright and
Alan Caine relate Blumenfeld's impressive biography and, helped by
over 200 superb photographs, bear witness to the dynamic, material
sensuality of her sculptural forms.
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