Alloy of Love: Dario Robleto

Book Overview

Honorable mention for the 2009 AAM Museum Publications Design Competition

San Antonio-based artist Dario Robleto is well known for his astonishing hand-crafted objects: works that reflect his intense investigatioin of such wide-ranging topics as science, music, popular culture, philosophy, war, and American history. Utilizing a lengthy roster of bizarre and disparate materials--including melted and pulverized vinyl records, artifacts gleaned from battlefields, rare herbs and minerals, and even prehistoric fossils and human bones--Robleto excavates conceptually-loaded elements from the past. He then seamlessly combines and refashions these potent details into poetic works that speak volumes about histoy and nostalgia, as well as concerns about the present condition of our world and its future. The resulting works are much more than just the sum of their constituent parts or factual interpretations of particular events and personalities; rather, they are sincere and emotional mediations on love, loss, spirituality, and ultimately, healing.

Alloy of Love chronicles a decade of Robleto's works with formal "portraits" and details of his sculptures and collages, along with song lyrics and poems associated with each work.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0976572362
• ISBN13: 9780976572367
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Ga
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

amazing

I wrote one of the essays in this book and normally I don't post reviews about books to which I've contributed, but I want to tell the world what a stunning and compelling book this turned out to be. Just an amazing work of art about some of the most amazing art I have seen this century. Inspiring, disturbing, and sure to be the next big thing.