Lynn Stern's haunting new book Animus -- her third monograph -- is a full-scale immersion in the dark night of the soul. Continuing her ten-year involvement with skull imagery, she portrays the restlessly changing shape of an ambiguous animal/human skull and transforms it into a luminous force -- sometimes vicious, sometimes benign, but always alluring and dramatic. A consummate craftsman, Stern uses a split-toning process to intensify the eerie incandescence of her pictures and heighten the feeling of spacial ...
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Lynn Stern's haunting new book Animus -- her third monograph -- is a full-scale immersion in the dark night of the soul. Continuing her ten-year involvement with skull imagery, she portrays the restlessly changing shape of an ambiguous animal/human skull and transforms it into a luminous force -- sometimes vicious, sometimes benign, but always alluring and dramatic. A consummate craftsman, Stern uses a split-toning process to intensify the eerie incandescence of her pictures and heighten the feeling of spacial disorientation. In his essay, renowned art critic Donald Kuspit writes: "I think her ambition ... is nothing less than to picture the unconscious...". Abstraction, he suggests, seems to model itself on the dynamics of the unconscious, and "Stern's Animus photographs show how insidious and dramatic and urgent such abstraction can be". Beautifully printed in quadratone, Animus is a singular and profound work, and an important contribution to the dialogue of contemporary art.
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Add this copy of Animus to cart. $5.23, very good condition, Sold by Magers and Quinn Booksellers rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Minneapolis, MN, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Nazraeli Press.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition (so stated-1800 copies). Folio. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Essay by Donald Kuspit. Dust jacket (unclipped). Fine, fresh. 95 pages. No signatures or bookplates.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 3923922892. Essay by Donald Kuspit. Black and white photographs throughout. Stated first edition (1800 copies). INSCRIBED by Lynn Stern to a previous owner. Near fine in a near fine (age toning) dust jacket.
