| | BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 9.75 x 12.25 in. / 214 pgs / 180 color. PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 7/1/2007 Out of print DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2007 p. 48 PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9783939738190 TRADE List Price: $65.00 CAD $75.00 AVAILABILITY Not available | TERRITORY NA LA ASIA AU/NZ AFR ME | | THE SPRING 2026 ARTBOOK | D.A.P. CATALOG  | | Preview our SPRING 2026 catalog, featuring more than 500 new books on art, photography, design, architecture, film, music and visual culture.
|
|   |   | ToygiantsEdited by Selim Varol. Text by Eugen Blume.
Daniel and Geo Fuchs were, until recently, best known for their stark photographs of animals, fish and humans conserved in science museums, which address the mortality of their subjects. More recently, they've shifted from dark documentary to these glowing Technicolor images of action figures, retaining many of the same concerns and taking up questions about the power of mass media and the cult of personality. Their first crop of new subjects were Batman, Superman and the Incredible Hulk. They soon moved on to Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone and Uma Thurman. And when they got to Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and George Bush, the borders between reality and fiction really started to wobble. Commonalities between the networked world of entertainment and "war games" became unavoidable. The iconographic strategies of a president climbing out of a fighter plane equipped with military gear are scrutinized in a George W. Bush doll in its original packaging, with military accessories. How different the somber, plastic faces of Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone, Cold War-era soldiers without much left to do at the box office. These miniature sculptures--the title toys--turn out to be the ideal subjects for the Fuchs' intensely observed portrait photography, which asks but does not answer: outside the toy box, outside the frame, what is real and what is staged? Toygiants leaves the interpretation of its pale, vacant, plastic faces to the viewer.
|
| | | | OF RELATED INTEREST |  Ideal World BooksISBN: 9780972211123 USD $24.95 | CAD $33.95 UK £ 22Pub Date: 12/2/2002 Out of print | Not available
| | |
| FORTHCOMING AND NEW: VISUAL CULTURE |  | Redstone PressISBN: 9781739597658 USD $24.95 | CAD $36.95 UK £ 20Pub Date: 6/2/2026 Forthcoming
|
|  | Marsilio ArteISBN: 9791254632239 USD $55.00 | CAD $85 UK £ 45Pub Date: 3/24/2026 Forthcoming
|
|  | JBE BooksISBN: 9782365681230 USD $30.00 | CAD $45Pub Date: 3/31/2026 Forthcoming
|
|  | JBE BooksISBN: 9782365681254 USD $40.00 | CAD $62Pub Date: 3/17/2026 Forthcoming
|
|  | SKIRAISBN: 9788857254654 USD $90.00 | CAD $138Pub Date: 6/2/2026 Forthcoming
|
|  | SKIRAISBN: 9788857254685 USD $100.00 | CAD $150Pub Date: 4/28/2026 Forthcoming
|
|  | National Portrait GalleryISBN: 9781855148406 USD $55.00 | CAD $85Pub Date: 7/14/2026 Forthcoming
|
|  | National Portrait GalleryISBN: 9781855148451 USD $22.00 | CAD $32Pub Date: 7/14/2026 Forthcoming
|
|  | Christine Burgin|Further Reading LibraryISBN: 9780997645675 USD $24.95 | CAD $36.95 UK £ 20Pub Date: 4/28/2026 Forthcoming
|
|  | Christine Burgin|Further Reading LibraryISBN: 9780997645682 USD $24.95 | CAD $36.95 UK £ 20Pub Date: 4/28/2026 Forthcoming
|
|  | Christine Burgin|Further Reading LibraryISBN: 9780997645699 USD $24.95 | CAD $36.95 UK £ 20Pub Date: 4/28/2026 Forthcoming
|
|  | Silvana EditorialeISBN: 9788836655458 USD $35.00 | CAD $54Pub Date: 3/31/2026 Forthcoming
|
|
|
| |
| |

|
FORMAT: Hardcover, 9.75 x 12.25 in. / 214 pgs / 180 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $65.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $75 ISBN: 9783939738190 PUBLISHER: Verlag für moderne Kunst AVAILABLE: 7/1/2007 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of print AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: NA LA ASIA AU/NZ AFR ME | D.A.P. CATALOG: FALL 2007 Page 48 | PRESS INQUIRIES
Tel: (212) 627-1999 ext 217 Fax: (212) 627-9484 Email Press Inquiries: publicity@dapinc.com | TRADE RESALE ORDERS
D.A.P. | DISTRIBUTED ART PUBLISHERS Tel: (212) 627-1999 Fax: (212) 627-9484 Customer Service: (800) 338-2665 Email Trade Sales: orders@dapinc.com |
| Toygiants Published by Verlag für moderne Kunst. Edited by Selim Varol. Text by Eugen Blume. Daniel and Geo Fuchs were, until recently, best known for their stark photographs of animals, fish and humans conserved in science museums, which address the mortality of their subjects. More recently, they've shifted from dark documentary to these glowing Technicolor images of action figures, retaining many of the same concerns and taking up questions about the power of mass media and the cult of personality. Their first crop of new subjects were Batman, Superman and the Incredible Hulk. They soon moved on to Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone and Uma Thurman. And when they got to Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and George Bush, the borders between reality and fiction really started to wobble. Commonalities between the networked world of entertainment and "war games" became unavoidable. The iconographic strategies of a president climbing out of a fighter plane equipped with military gear are scrutinized in a George W. Bush doll in its original packaging, with military accessories. How different the somber, plastic faces of Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone, Cold War-era soldiers without much left to do at the box office. These miniature sculptures--the title toys--turn out to be the ideal subjects for the Fuchs' intensely observed portrait photography, which asks but does not answer: outside the toy box, outside the frame, what is real and what is staged? Toygiants leaves the interpretation of its pale, vacant, plastic faces to the viewer.
| VIEW MORE ONLINE AT: https://www.artbook.com/3939738190.html |
| | |
|
