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Matter and Spirit: Stephen De Staebler
Burgard, Timothy, Ed
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Paperback. Over the course of his career, Stephen De Staebler (1933-2011) created powerful, elegiac figurative sculptures in clay and bronze. This title provides a biographical portrait of the sculptor, and renowned art historian. Editor(s): Burgard, Timothy. Num Pages: 240 pages, 100 color illustrations, 50 b/w photographs scattered. BIC Classification: AFKB; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 289 x 232 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1294.
"Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth". (Stephen De Staebler). Over the course of a fifty-year career, Stephen De Staebler (1933-2011) created powerful, elegiac figurative sculptures in clay and bronze. Extending and assimilating an artistic lineage that includes Michelangelo, Auguste Rodin, and Alberto Giacometti as well as the art of the ancient Americas, Egypt, and Greece, De Staebler developed a sculptural vocabulary uniquely his own. A resident of the San Francisco Bay Area since the late 1950s, De Staebler was among the first students of the legendary Peter Voulkos at ... Read more
"Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth". (Stephen De Staebler). Over the course of a fifty-year career, Stephen De Staebler (1933-2011) created powerful, elegiac figurative sculptures in clay and bronze. Extending and assimilating an artistic lineage that includes Michelangelo, Auguste Rodin, and Alberto Giacometti as well as the art of the ancient Americas, Egypt, and Greece, De Staebler developed a sculptural vocabulary uniquely his own. A resident of the San Francisco Bay Area since the late 1950s, De Staebler was among the first students of the legendary Peter Voulkos at ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520272316
SKU
V9780520272316
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About Burgard, Timothy, Ed
Timothy Anglin Burgard is the Ednah Root Curator in Charge of the American Art Department at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. His previous curatorial positions were at the Harvard University Art Museums and the New-York Historical Society. Among his many publications are The Surreal World of Enrico Donati, The Art of Dale Chihuly, and Body of Work: The ... Read more
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