Duane Hanson (1925-1996)

Artist with Ladder

细节

Duane Hanson (1925-1996)
Artist with Ladder
polychromed polyester resin and fiberglass, mixed media, with accessories
70 x 40.9 x 45 in. (177.8 x 104.1 x 114.3 cm.)
Executed in 1972.

来源

Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City
Acquired from the above by the present owner

出版

R. Hughes, "Making the Blue-Collar Waxworks," in Time, Vol. III, No. 8, February 20, 1978, p. 92 (illustrated in color).
K. Varnedoe, Duane Hanson, New York, 1980, p. 50 (illustrated in color).
T. Buchsteiner and O. Letz, ed., Duane Hanson: Modern Reality, New York, 2001, no. 25, p. 165 (illustrated in color).
T. Buchsteiner and O. Letz, ed., Duane Hanson: Sculptures of the American Dream, Ostfildern, 2007, no. 25, p. 41 (illustrated in color).

荣誉呈献

Jonathan Laib

jlaib@christies.com +1 212 636 2101

拍品专文

"Hanson has distinct beliefs as to what is typical and enduring in the lives of the people he creates, and these exclude much of what we normally think of as animation: not only eroticism and physical motion, but also laugher, smiling, and even interpersonal communication. These things are seen by the artist not only as awkward for sculpture, but more significantly as secondary, temporary adjuncts to the more fundamental human conditions of passive self-enclosure and isolation he finds moving."
Kirk Varnedoe

"I discovered that you don't have to hit the viewer on the head every time, you can come in rather sneaky or underhanded and get the message across. I think I have a broader viewpoint of the world now. I'm interested in everyday types of things that people do, the common denominator, those things that are down to earth, nonelitist."
Duane Hanson