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Paper: Angels: Self Portraits in a Gesture of Suffering and Transcendence
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American Art - GeneralGeneral ArtIndividual Artists
Publisher Price: $20.00
ISBN13: 9781733071949
Publisher: Sandra Bleifer
Published: Apr 22 2019
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.09 Width: 8.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The figure in flight conjures up a familiar female archetype - an angel - an arbiter between human suffering and transcendence. The use of the female figure - long a staple of Western artistic iconography - may be interpreted in a contemporary context of women's issues or as a matriarchal figure embodying the world's suffering. The Shrine of the Angels series utilizes color photo Xerox printouts of the source image for the Angels, several incorporating a lighting element and on a scale that can collectively be installed as a shrine.
These life-size female figures gesturing upward in supplication depict a range of human injuries that we endure. They have taken on a religious connotation when installed in churches and function as transcendence and closure in the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Memorial Project when the artist has included them in that project.
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