Fractured Figure, Volume I

by Pawel Althamer, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jeffrey Deitch

A culture's body image, as refracted through its art, will usually provide a more telling account of its preoccupations than the most explicit political art; it seems that cultural symptoms leak more readily into depictions of the body than into more overt statements. This is especially true in periods of heightened alienation, when the solitary figure gains poignancy, but bodies register their eras in many ways: the signifiers of opulence, imperialism,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0977868672
• ISBN13: 9780977868674
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Deste Foundation
• Length: 216 Pages
• Dimensions: 14.7" x 11.5" x 14.8"
• Age Range: 10 years and up