James Croak
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: April 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780810963795
Subjects: History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Individual artists; Sculpture; Individual Sculptors And Their Work; Art & Art Instruction; Art; USA; American - General; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Museum; Art / History / General; Individual Artist
Description: James Croak, one of America's most original artists, has produced an astonishing and idiosyncratic body of work during the past twenty years. Using a variety of innovative materials and techniques, including taxidermy, latex rubber, tar, and his trademark cast dirt, he has merged traditional allegiance to exacting craftsmanship with a late-twentieth-century sensibility, creating sculpture of presence and feeling.

With more than 100 illustrations documenting the artist's development over the past two decades, the book follows his experiments with Minimalism - an approach that he revisited with his Window series - his examinations of American society in New Skins for the Coming Monstrosities, and the art of the figure that chiefly holds his attention today.