Helen Chadwick : a retrospective / edited by Mark Sladen with a preface by Marina Warner; essays by Mark Sladen, Mary Horlock and Eva Martischnig.
By: Chadwick, Helen.
Contributor(s): Sladen, Mark
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Material type: 
BookPublisher: Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany : Hatje Cantz, 2004Description: 167 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 377571393X.Subject(s): Chadwick, Helen, -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 709.2 CHA
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 709.2 CHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 01/03/2024 | 00088800 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
An artist much concerned with ideas of transience, self and identity, particularly female identity, Helen Chadwick was also noted for her controversial use of materials and subject matter. At the time of her sudden death in 1996, at the age of 42, she had attracted the attention of many feminists, writers as well as artists. Chadwick's work of the late 1970s explored her social situation in relation to the kitchen, for example, or the welfare office. In the 1980s, she concentrated more on how the female self is constructed through social and cultural structures. Later works dealt with aspects of death and decay, but always in exceptionally beautiful forms. The artist spoke of the feelings her work provoked as being "gorgeously repulsive, exquisitely fun, dangerously beautiful." This monograph, the first comprehensive survey of Chadwick's work, will include many of her most famous photographs, sculptures and installations: Viral Landscapes , photographic works featuring cells taken from the artist's body, Piss Flowers , sculptures made by casting the holes left by a man and woman urinating in the snow, and "Cacao," a fountain of hot bubbling chocolate.
This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Helen Chadwick : a retrospective at the Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, London, 29 April - 1 August 2004. Touring to Manchester Art Gallery, Kunstmuseet Trapholt, Kolding; and Lijevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Foreword (p. 7)
- Preface (p. 9)
- A Red Mirror (p. 13)
- Between a Rock and a Soft Place (p. 33)
- Getting Inside the Artist's Head (p. 47)
- Plates (p. 56)
- List of Illustrations (p. 149)
- Chronology (p. 155)
- Credits (p. 166)