Published by Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Inc.. Edited with introduction by Jack Rutberg. Text by Louise Salter, Lyle Zimskind, Phil Tarley, Lita Barrie, Aline Smithson, Diane Calder, et al.
Estranged for more than 50 years, Brooklyn-born identical twin brothers—the celebrated artists Joel-Peter Witkin and Jerome Witkin—are brought together for the first time in this publication recreating an exhibition at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Los Angeles. Each of the artists' works from the critically acclaimed exhibition is fully illustrated in this volume, which also includes an audio CD of the historic first interview of the brothers together, as well as a selection of the initial reviews and interviews published through the mid-point of the exhibition's extended run.
PUBLISHER Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Inc.
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 8 x 10 in. / 118 pgs / 6 bw / 56 color / Audio CD.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 2/24/2015 Active
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2015 p. 120
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Joel-Peter Witkin: Vanitas offers a concise survey of one of the most controversial photographers alive. Since the late 1970s, Witkin’s black-and-white portraits and still-lifes of hermaphrodites, body parts, severed heads, mutilations and similar themes have inevitably provided shock fodder to the religious right, while seeming to evoke an easy relationship to ideas of decadence and morbidity. For Witkin, the goal is simple: “I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.” Witkin’s photographs offer up examples of life’s extremities as unblinking confrontations with mortality, whose power derives not merely from their content but from the keen compositional instincts governing that content. Witkin’s gift for still life and his use of religious motifs such as crucifixion and sainthood have been nourished by his appreciation of the likes of Francisco Goya, Odilon Redon and Hieronymus Bosch, whose examples he has translated for the concerns of the present. Witkin’s photographs have made a colossal impact upon contemporary culture, influencing artists such as the Chapman Brothers and Erwin Olaf, musicians such as Diamanda Galás and Trent Reznor, and the late fashion designer Alexander McQueen, among many others. Vanitas provides a cross-section of the artist’s work from the 1970s to the present. In addition to photographs, it includes many lesser-known drawings and paintings, as well as Witkin’s most recent, previously unpublished photographs. A bilingual (English/Czech) text by the art historian Otto M. Urban summarizes the development of Witkin’s life and work. Joel-Peter Witkin was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1939, and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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BOOK FORMAT Flexi, 9 x 10.25 in. / 164 pgs / 93 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 10/31/2012 Out of stock indefinitely
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2012 p. 53
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