Gods of Earth and Heaven
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.40 (699 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0942642392 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 124 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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And you thought the Mutter Museum was scary Probably one of the most disturbing artist's work you will ever see in your life. Witkin's work is also some of the most beautiful photography you will see in your life. Raid the savings account and get a copy if you can.. A Customer said Gods of Heaven and Earth. If one were to draw an imaginary line through the last two hundred years, starting with Goya and the Disasters of War, perhaps pausing briefly with Daumier and then moving resolutely to the trenches of the first world war, some of the lithographs of George Bellows, Otto Dix and Grosz. And if that imaginary line were to pick up the expressionist thread again in Mexico, most particularly with Oroz. photography from the underside A Customer o pushing the role of the photographer as one who photographs the poor, the odd, the strange, the perverse, the sexual underworld in the tradition of Weegee, Arbus, etc.o pushing the adaptation of famous works of art in the past into modern pieces. o and if you can't stomach what you find, you should at least be able to appreciate the quality of the photo-manipulation. o one image from this book
Here you will encounter hermaphrodites, malformed bodies, Siamese twins, corpses, fetuses, cut-off heads, and self-torturers. Once you have witnessed the dark, sensational visions of Joel-Peter Witkin, you will never be the same again. This exquisitely produced collection of black-and-white photographs will take you, as Guy Blaisdell writes in an essay at the end of the book, into "a human afterworld one that comes before or after the death of this world--a place where the spirits of the dead live on by sitting as works of art for their portraits, descending into our moment and returning always to their identical selves." Warning: Not for those under 18 and/or easily disturbed. Witkin gets to you. . Witkin's compositions go far beyond conventional "freak show" tableaux to achieve a
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