Item
Fables and Fantasies
- Title
- en_US Fables and Fantasies
- Description
- en_US Donald B. Kuspit
- Creator
- en_US Kuspit, Donald B. See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Various
- Date
- 2016-01-25T16:07:57Z
- en_US 1991-04
- en_US 1988
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T16:07:57Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1988
- Abstract
- en_US A glossy exhibit catalogue of a show united around a central concept. These forty-four recent works are related by their use of myth, legend, or personal fantasy as a mode for expressing the troubled human condition in the face of the anxieties and uncertainties of the `post-modern' world (Michael Mezzatesta, the museum's director, on 4). Kuspit writes Most of the works are narrative; they obviously depict human affairs. More significantly, they are implicitly allegorical. They...articulate a myth of humanness (6). Even more specifically, they are about lost human integrity. Kuspit devotes several paragraphs to what these artist fablists attempt to accomplish. I find the works of Gingerich, Howson, and Campbell most engaging.
- Identifier
- en_US 938989014
- en_US 1873 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Duke University Museum of Art
- en_US Durham, NC
- Subject
- en_US N6487.D85 D8 1988 See all items with this value
- en_US Tangential book See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books