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Angels: Self Portraits in a Gesture of Suffering and Transcendence

Sandy Bleifer, Debbie Zeitman

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English

Sandra Bleifer
22 April 2019

History of Art & Design Styles; Art Forms; Non-graphic art forms; Sculpture; Human figures depicted in art

"The figure in flight conjures up a familiar female archetype - an angel - an arbiter between human suffering and transcendence. The use of the female figure - long a staple of Western artistic iconography - may be interpreted in a contemporary context of women's issues or as a matriarchal figure embodying the world's suffering. The ""Shrine of the Angels"" series utilizes color photo Xerox printouts of the source image for the Angels, several incorporating a lighting element and on a scale that can collectively be installed as a shrine.

These life-size female figures gesturing upward in supplication depict a range of human injuries that we endure. They have taken on a religious connotation when installed in churches and function as transcendence and closure in the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Memorial Project when the artist has included them in that project."

By: Sandy Bleifer
Designed by: Debbie Zeitman
Imprint: Sandra Bleifer
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 203mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 91g
ISBN: 9781733071949
ISBN 10: 1733071946
Pages: 34
Publication Date: 22 April 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Paper: Angels: Self Portraits in a Gesture of Suffering and Transcendence

The Angels constitute an almost serial consideration of the splayed (and perhaps flayed) body, hung as if crucified and bringing to mind the Crucifixion altarpieces of the early and high Renaissance. Peter Frank, Art Critic and Curator, 2017