Research Catalog

Title

Duane Hanson : more than reality / edited by Thomas Buchsteiner and Otto Letze.

Author

Hanson, Duane

Publication

Ostfildern-Ruit : Hatje Cantz ; New York : Distribution in the U.S., D.A.P., Distributed Art Publishers, c2001.

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Additional Authors

• Buchsteiner, Thomas
• Letze, Otto
• Institut für Kulturaustausch (Tübingen, Germany)

Description

192 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 30 cm.

Summary

Wrinkles, facial hair, varicose veins, and fingernail dirt are hardly the bodily stuff of your average figurative sculpture, be it a Praxiteles or a Rodin. But Duane Hanson was never after the ideal figure, merely the familiar one, one so recognizable it is often mistaken for the flesh-and-blood waitress, house painter or cop it so vividly, eerily depicts in polyester resin. Clothed in the most exacting of detail, down to their hidden underpants, Hanson's sculptures compell an endless, prying looking into the folds and moods of his subjects. More Than Reality, the first catalogue raisonne of his sculptures, reveals that Hanson's objective was never blatant voyeurism but the opening of a view onto those things we prefer to overlook: the drabness of everyday life, the dullness of common states of mind, and the inevitability of mortality.

Alternative Title

More than reality

Subject

• Hanson, Duane > Exhibitions
• Hanson, Duane > Catalogues raisonnés

Genre/Form

• Catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs
• Frankfurt (Main, 2001)

Note

• Published in conjunction with a European touring exhibition organized by the Institut fur Kulturaustausch, Tubingen.
• German ed. published simultaneously.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-[189]).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 3775790934 (English ed.)
• 3775790926 (German ed.)

LCCN

^^2003450556

OCLC

• 48111930
• SCSB-9972588

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library