Kiki Smith

         

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KIKI SMITH: HER HOME
KERBER
U.S. $45.00 | CAN $45
ISBN: 9783866781863 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 3/1/2009 | In stock

KIKI SMITH: THE VENICE STORY
CHARTA LIBELLUM
U.S. $34.95 | CAN $34.95
ISBN: 9788881586271 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 2/1/2007 | In stock

KIKI SMITH
WALKER ART CENTER
U.S. $65.00 | CAN $65
ISBN: 9780935640793 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 11/15/2005 | In stock

KIKI SMITH: PRINTS, BOOKS AND THINGS
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
U.S. $45.00 | CAN $45
ISBN: 9780870705830 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 7/31/2009 | Awaiting stock

SIGNS OF LIFE: KIKI SMITH, REBECCA HOWLAND, CARA PERLMAN & CHRISTY RUPP
UNIVERSITY GALLERIES OF ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY
U.S. $25.00 | CAN $25
ISBN: 9780945558194 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 3/2/1993 | In stock

    

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KIKI SMITH: SMALL SCULPTURES AND LARGE DRAWINGS
HATJE CANTZ PUBLISHERS
U.S. $19.95 | CAN $19.95
ISBN: 9783775790741 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 2/2/2002 | Not available

KIKI SMITH
INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY
U.S. $12.95 | CAN $12.95
ISBN: 9780933642287 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 8/2/2001 | Not available

Kiki Smith

Kiki Smith: Her Home

Text by Ellen Seifermann, Martin Hentschel, Kiki Smith.
Published by Kerber

Born in 1954 in Nuremberg, Germany, but raised in an artistic family in South Orange, New Jersey (her father was the American sculptor Tony Smith), Kiki Smith has always occupied herself with questions of the human body and condition. Unlike classical figurative sculpture, which hides the insides of the body, Smith's work often visualizes the organs and the bodily fluids, highlighting the fragility and temporality of the body. Her work draws from myths and links spirit, human and animal worlds.
Beautifully produced to include a selection of family photographs from the artist's childhood and ancestry alongside generous documentation of her recent concurrent one-person exhibitions in Krefeld, Germany and Nuremberg, this volume sheds new light on one of the most influential American artists of her generation. Taking as her starting point an eighteenth-century American silk embroidery entitled "First, Second and Last Scene of Mortality," which depicts a white woman working at a table while a white child and a black servant rest on one side of her and a closed black coffin sits on the other side, Smith here develops several narrative threads that revolve around the theme of the unmarried woman. With excursions into Christian iconography and the history of the American postcolonial era, she speaks also to the archetype of the inspired female creator or artist.

KIKI SMITH: HER HOME
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Kiki Smith: The Venice Story

Text by Vivien Bittencourt, Vincent Katz, Kiki Smith.
Published by Charta Libellum

Vincent Katz and Vivien Bittencourt's book, produced in concert with their video of the same title, traces Kiki Smith's preparations for her eight-room installation at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice, which coincided with the 2005 Venice Biennale. It places readers in the midst of the puzzling but effective modus operandi of a highly sophisticated visual artist: Smith works at home, surrounded by books, a pet bird and tiny kitchenette, and moves easily between drawing, collaging, photographing, printing, painting plaster casts and creating furniture fashioned from liquor boxes. Following her to Venice, Katz and Bittencourt observe the complex installation of this work, which proves to be an integral part of its conceptual whole. The book features fascinating and revealing transcripts of the artist's spoken words--spontaneous reflections on her life as an artist among a family of artists.

KIKI SMITH: THE VENICE STORY
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Kiki Smith

Edited by Siri Engberg. Essays by Siri Engberg, Linda Nochlin and Marina Warner. Interview by Lynne Tillman. Foreword by Kathy Halbreich.
Published by Walker Art Center

Widely considered to be one of the most engaging and fascinating artists of our time, Kiki Smith has, over the past 25 years, developed into a major figure in the world of twenty-first-century art. Her subject matter is as wide-ranging as the materials her work has encompassed. In the 1980s, with her earliest figural sculptures in plaster, glass and wax, Smith developed an elaborate vocabulary around the forms and functions of the body and its metaphorical as well as physical relationship to society. By the early 1990s, she began to engage with themes of a more religious and mythological nature. Her re-imaginings of biblical women as inhabitants of physical bodies--rather than as abstract bearers of doctrine--led her to make series of sculptural works related to the figure of the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, Lilith and others. The artist has more recently considered fairy tales and folk narratives as well as nurturing a growing menagerie of work concerned with animals and the natural world. Smith has now earned a considerable reputation as a virtuoso printmaker and draftsperson, and as a re-inventor of the startling sculptural possibilities present in materials ranging from paper and resin to bronze and porcelain. Organized by the Walker Art Center with the full collaboration of the artist, the exhibition Kiki Smith represents the artist's first full-scale monograph.

KIKI SMITH
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Signs Of Life: Kiki Smith, Rebecca Howland, Cara Perlman & Christy Rupp

Artwork by Kiki Smith. Contributions by Rebecca Howland, Cara Perlman, Christy Rupp.
Published by University Galleries of Illinois State University

Four women artists create works addressing ecological issues, the unsettling interface between biology and technology, and humanist cultural concerns.

SIGNS OF LIFE: KIKI SMITH, REBECCA HOWLAND, CARA PERLMAN & CHRISTY RUPP
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