| The Art of Gillian Jagger Contributor(s): Chazen Museum of Art (Author), Brenson, Michael (Contribution by), Panczenko, Russell (Selected by) |
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ISBN: 0932900976 ISBN-13: 9780932900975 Publisher: Chazen Museum of Art OUR PRICE: $19.75 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2003 Annotation: Gillian Jagger's complex and moving sculptures are documented in the Elvehjem's (now Chazen's) catalogue of the first museum-organized exhibition of her work. Installation pieces and works on paper are featured, including Jagger's Matrice--a deer carcass found on the road near her studio, stabilized by resin, and suspended with dairy cow stanchions and metal rigging, all hanging above broken stones from a New York quarry. In Rift, suspended fragments of weathered board, coiling barbed wire, rusted cutting tools, bones of a deer, a horse skull, and a mummified cat represented the artist's protest against animal abuse. Jagger incorporated sections of a large tree trunk, cast rocks, a grid, chains, hooks, and pulleys in her major recent work, Spiral. Distributed for the Chasen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Individual Artists - General - Art | Sculpture & Installation - Architecture | Individual Architects & Firms - General |
| Dewey: 730.92 |
| LCCN: 2003009026 |
| Physical Information: 0.26" H x 8.2" W x 9.76" (0.78 lbs) 72 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Gillian Jagger s complex and moving sculptures are documented in the Elvehjem s (now Chazen's) catalogue of the first museum-organized exhibition of her work. Installation pieces and works on paper are featured, including Jagger s Matrice a deer carcass found on the road near her studio, stabilized by resin, and suspended with dairy cow stanchions and metal rigging, all hanging above broken stones from a New York quarry. In Rift, suspended fragments of weathered board, coiling barbed wire, rusted cutting tools, bones of a deer, a horse skull, and a mummified cat represented the artist s protest against animal abuse. Jagger incorporated sections of a large tree trunk, cast rocks, a grid, chains, hooks, and pulleys in her major recent work, Spiral. Distributed for theChasen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin Madison" |