George Segal

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George Segal: Bronze Essay by Joan Pachner. Introduction by Carroll Janis. In the late 1960s, George Segal began double-casting” his work--taking a second cast from inside the mold of the original cast. This process brought finer detail to the surface and was
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MITCHELL-INNES & NASH
ISBN: 9780971384484
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George Segal: Street Scenes Edited by Paul Cooper. Text by Stephen Fleischman, Jane Simon, Martin Friedman. Best known for his life-sized plaster sculptures of people engaged in everyday activities, George Segal (1924-2000) was one of the most prominent American artists of the twentieth century. This publication recounts
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MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
ISBN: 9780913883341
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George Segal

George Segal: Street Scenes

Edited by Paul Cooper. Text by Stephen Fleischman, Jane Simon, Martin Friedman.
Published by Madison Museum of Contemporary Art

Best known for his life-sized plaster sculptures of people engaged in everyday activities, George Segal (1924-2000) was one of the most prominent American artists of the twentieth century. This publication recounts the urban themes prevalent in Segal's sculptures over his 40-year career. George Segal: Street Scenesi s published concurrently with an exhibition at Wisconsin's Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. It includes essays by MMoCA curator Jane Simon and Director Emeritus of the Walker Art Center, Martin Friedman--a close friend and colleague of the artist.

George Segal: Bronze

Essay by Joan Pachner. Introduction by Carroll Janis.
Published by Mitchell-Innes & Nash

In the late 1960s, George Segal began “double-casting” his work--taking a second cast from inside the mold of the original cast. This process brought finer detail to the surface and was part of his evolution to a more naturalizing image. When, in the 1980s, he began making bronze work for outdoor installation, he continued this double-casting technique and all his bronzes were made from finished plasters. As Carroll Janis writes in the introduction, “Segal's plaster sculpture presents an existential situation; the surrogate figure, more fagile and removed from reality when set next to the real object. The bronzes appear to reverse this idea by asserting the strength and permanence of the human figure within the surrounding environment.”