Gods of Earth & Heaven, LA, 1988, 1998 - Joel-Peter Witkin
About the Work
About Gods of Earth & Heaven, LA, 1988
Re-staging famous paintings by the likes of Botticelli and Gericault with hermaphrodites, centaurs, and contemporary politicians, these antique-looking photographs are designed to challenge, confuse and titillate.
About the Artist
About Joel-Peter Witkin
Since the late 1970s, Joel-Peter Witkin has been making elaborately staged, wickedly surrealist photographs. Hermaphrodites, dwarves, people with deformities, and even corpses appear with props ...Read More
Since the late 1970s, Joel-Peter Witkin has been making elaborately staged, wickedly surrealist photographs. Hermaphrodites, dwarves, people with deformities, and even corpses appear with props and fetishistic accessories, in outré tableaux that, in recent years, have influenced the fashion designs of Alexander McQueen. Witkin has exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad; in 1995, the Guggenheim in New York gave him a retrospective.Read Less
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Description
Toned gelatin silver print.Authentication
Signed, titled, dated and editioned in pencil by the artist on verso.Dimensions
The quoted dimensions are for the paper size. The actual image size is 14.5" x 14.75".Shipping
Ships in 10-14 business days.This work is final sale and not eligible for return.
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