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Amy Cutler: Turtle Fur
Contributor(s): Cutler, Amy, Steward, Laura (Text by (Art, Photo Books)), Bender, Aimee (Text by (Art, Photo Books))
ISBN: 3775728090     ISBN-13: 9783775728096
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
OUR PRICE:   $54.00  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: May 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Art | Individual Artists - Monographs
Dewey: 709.2
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 9.42" W x 11.26" (2.47 lbs) 160 pages
 
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Polite ladies in Victorian costume dancing on tabletops with chairs worn like hats on their heads; young girls with little foals strapped to their backs; a team of women dutifully mending docile tigers with needle and thread--all of these surreal antics depicted on a bare white ground--this is the jauntily disturbing imagery of Amy Cutler (born 1974), as clear-eyed in its execution as it is enigmatic in content. Cutler's gouaches and drawings on paper have won fans and collectors worldwide, and their winning amalgam of rich imagination and skillful execution, which together update lineages as various as Persian miniature painting, Surrealism, children's fairytale books and Japanese woodblock printing, offers satisfactions rarely found in contemporary art. More recently, Cutler has ventured into sculptural installation, realizing her idiosyncratic world in three dimensions with a work titled Alteraciones, in which dozens of female figurines--produced from molds handmade by the artist--are gathered around a tabletop and are weaving a thread that binds them to each other. This volume, published for the artist's 2011 exhibition at SITE Sante Fe, is Cutler's second monograph (her first went out of print quickly and is already a rarity), and draws from private and public collections to offer a thorough survey of her work from the late 1990s to the present.