Research Catalog

Title

Ron Mueck / herausgegeben von / edited by Heiner Bastian.

Author

Mueck, Ron.

Publication

Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany : Hatje Cantz ; New York, NY : Distributed by D.A.P., Distributed Art Publishers, 2005.

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Additional Authors

• Bastian, Heiner, 1942-
• Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart--Berlin.

Description

87 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), , ports.; 28 cm.

Summary

Ron Mueck, the hyper-realist sculptor, learned his craft making models and puppets for television and movies. He was nearly 40 when his work came to the attention of Charles Saatchi. At Saatchi’s urging, he began to show his sculptures in gallery and museum contexts in the late 1990s. They met with astonishment and praise, particularly Dead Dad, a silicon and mixed media model of Mueck’s father’s body, perfectly proportioned but less than four feet long, which made its debut at the highly-publicized Sensation show. The human presence and perfection of detail in Mueck’s work, the realism and mysterious, transfigured quality of his figures, which stems in part from his extravagant liberties with scale, excited immediate international attention. Since then, the artist’s fame has increased steadily with each new work. This second, expanded edition of the monograph of record updates the only comprehensive publication on Mueck’s work. Céline Bastian’s catalogue raisonné lists all of his works to date.

Subject

Mueck, Ron > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Catalog of exhibition at Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum der Gegenwart, Berlin, 10 Sept. through 2 Nov. 2003.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 86-87).

Language (note)

• Text in German and English.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ron Mueck : Realismus neu definiert = a redefinition of realism / Susanna Greeves -- Bemerkungen über einige Skulpturen von Ron Mueck = On several sculptures by Ron Mueck / Heiner Bastian -- Catalogue raisonné / zusammengestellt von/compiled by Cëline Bastian.

ISBN

• 3775717196 (hc)
• 9783775717199 (hc)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library