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White Elephant (Hardcover)
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Since the mid-1960s, Franz West (born 1947) has been finding new
ways to balance his art on the line between beauty and ugliness. At
the age of 14, West--living in bombed-out, post-Nazi
Vienna--attended an event organized by the Viennese Actionists, at
which Hermann Nitsch smashed a lamb cadaver against the wall of a
basement room in a tenement building: "it was incredibly shocking
and really depressing," West said. His own art over the past four
decades has eschewed such nihilism: his "Adaptives," which he has
described as "neuroses made material" (with a nod to Darwin as
well), are sculptural objects for viewers to engage physically,
using them as ungainly temporary prostheses, appliances,
accessories, and instructional tools. "White Elephant" documents
these, as well as West's important works of furniture and collage,
and his marvelously awkward sculptures, which seem lumpily homely
and unbalanced, or gangly and hopeful as a blemished teen.
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