Ranging from intricately woven textiles to painted ceramic vessels and
modeled effigies, the exhibition was conceived by the Blanton and guest curator Dr. Kimberly L. Jones, while she served as a UT Austin lecturer and curator of UT's Art and Art History Collection (before her recent hire by the Dallas Museum of Art).
Ranging from intricately woven textiles to painted ceramic vessels and
modeled effigies, the exhibition was conceived by the Blanton and guest - curator Dr. Kimberly L. Jones, while she served as a UT Austin lecturer and curator of UT's Art and Art History Collection before her recent hire by the Dallas Museum of Art.
Not exact matches
The
models in the picture, trussed up and pinioned, are no different, really, from the gory Catholic
effigies of the Crucifixion.
An amusing example of this taboo on confronting a dressed lady with a naked man is embodied in a group portrait of the members of the Royal Academy in London in 1772, represented by Zoffany as gathered in the life room before two nude male
models: all the distinguished members are present with but one noteworthy exception — the single female member, the renowned Angelica Kauffmann, who, for propriety's sake, is merely present in
effigy, in the form of a portrait hanging on the wall.
Juxtaposing well - known masterpieces with surprising and little - seen works, the exhibition brings together sculptures by artists from Donatello, El Greco, Jean - Léon Gérôme, Antonio Canova, Auguste Rodin, and Edgar Degas to Louise Bourgeois, Meret Oppenheim, Isa Genzken, Charles Ray, Fred Wilson, Robert Gober, Bharti Kher, Duane Hanson, Jeff Koons, and Yinka Shonibare MBE, as well as wax
effigies, reliquaries, mannequins, and anatomical
models.
Featuring works by Donatello, El Greco, Auguste Rodin, and Jeff Koons, among others, the exhibition draws together idealized sculpture, wax
effigies, reliquaries, mannequins, and even anatomical
models.
Juxtaposing well - known masterpieces with surprising and little - seen works, the exhibition brings together sculptures by artists from Donatello, El Greco, Anna Morandi Manzolini, Jean - Léon Gérôme, Antonio Canova, Auguste Rodin, and Edgar Degas to Louise Bourgeois, Meret Oppenheim, Isa Genzken, Charles Ray, Fred Wilson, Robert Gober, Bharti Kher, Duane Hansen, Jeff Koons, and Yinka Shonibare MBE, as well as wax
effigies, reliquaries, mannequins, and anatomical
models.