Thomas Schutte by Getrud Sandqvist; Michael Govan; Thomas Schutte; Lynne Cooke; Contributor-Susan Stewart - 2001-06-15

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New York: Dia Foundation, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Features a preface by Michael Govan and essays by Lynne Cooke, Alexander Kluge, Ian Avigkos, Susan Stewart, Gertrud Sandquist, and Thomas Schutte. Includes numerous illustrations, list of previous exhibitions, and a bibliography. A clean very near fine copy in illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued.

Dia Foundation, New York, 2001. hardcover with dust jacket. fine. Thomas Schütte is a catalog of works by this contemporary German artist. Schütte studied under Gerhard Richter, Benjamin Buchloh, and Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Düsseldorf Academy in the 1970s. He comes from that strong conceptual background, but as his career matured the emotional content of his work evolved and became much more potent. Schütte's work is incredibly eclectic: ceramic figures, architectural models, drawings, outdoor sculptures, photographs, and installations. A recent work, Big Spirits (1996), is a collection of larger-than-life-size aluminum figures that seem to be morphing before one's eyes. They are at once ghost, human, and machine. Also riveting is The Innocents (1994), a series of photographs of the heads of handmade figurines, and United Enemies, A Play in Ten Scenes (1993)--offset lithographs, also of figurines wrapped in Schütte's clothes. His watercolors are beautiful,… Read More