Claus Burry - Christoph Brockhaus; Martin Burckhardt
High tide - low tide
KORTE INHOUD
Claus Bury began his career as a jeweler, and the architectural sculpture he's been making since 1979 retains the rounded shapes, balance and smooth finish of his first trade. High Tide, Low Tide tracks Bury's most recent accomplishments, and, for the first time, includes excerpts from his sketchbooks and journals. Pages detailing his recent travels in Yucatan, Mexico appear alongside black-and-white photographs of Mayan temples. Photographs of Bury's farm works, made of bales of hay, show the influence of the Mayans' iconic geometric purity. Other materials illuminate the artist's latest curved and boned structures, many wooden, by comparing them to ships. And the production of his largest work to date, the 2006 "Bitterfeld Arch," a multi-story steel bridge to nowhere, is documented from the ground up--eight months from start to ribbon-cutting--and contrasted with the "Greenhouse for Thoughts," a 2005 wooden installation shaped like a house frame, with a forest of studs where the walls would be. Though Bury ...
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2007Uitgever: Hatje Cantz Verlag272 paginasTaal: EngelsGrootte: 240x300ISBN-10: 3775718877ISBN-13: 9783775718875Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original pictorial boards, oblong, circa 25x31cm, illustrated in b/w.; Still shrinkwrapped. [Auteur: Flagge, Ingeborg] [Pagina's: 224] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Ostfildern-Ruit : Hatje Cantz Verlag] [Jaar: 2007] [Titel: Claus Bury: Gegenläufig: High Tide - Low Tide]
