Kiki Smith
Editorial Reviews Book Description Through her explorations of the human body and the natural world, Kiki Smith has confronted in her art the most urgent social and spiritual issues of our day. Direct and accessible, Smith's expressive art engages social and cultural issues in a sometimes viscerally disturbing way. In her most recent work, Smith has extended those themes, incorporating rites of passage and cycles of life, death, and rebirth through an iconography of animal, human, and fairy tale imagery.
Helaine Posner's monograph is a comprehensive survey of Smith's work in installation, sculpture, and graphic media. She discusses its origins and proposes an interpretive framework, locating it within the artistic traditions that have nourished Smith and tracing its development from the 1980s to the present. An interview with Smith adds the artist's own perspective on the work. About the Author Helaine Posner is a curator of contemporary art. Her exhibitions and publications include Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation and ann hamilton: myein for the United States pavilion at the 48th Venice Biennale. Posner is the author of Kiki Smith: Telling Tales, which accompanied an exhibition at the International Center of Photography in New York.
Christopher Lyon is an editor and writer specializing in contemporary art.
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