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Artist Joel Shapiro (American, born 1941)

Date1982-1983

DimensionsH: 42 3/4 in. (108.6 cm); W: 29 1/2 in. (74.9 cm); Depth: 36 in. (91.4 cm)

MediumSand-casted, silicone bronze.

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1983.59

Not on View

Label Text. . . it is important that a convincing piece of sculpture could be put together so simply and be figurative without having to get involved with literally describing human movement or one’s internal feeling of movement. It has to function in terms of one’s memory of the body. Both the subject and the medium of this sculpture invite careful examination. Is it made of bronze or wood? Is it a construction of geometric solids or a human figure? If it is a figure, is it standing on one leg or turning a cartwheel? Preferring that his sculpture be displayed directly on the floor rather than on a platform or pedestal, Shapiro has created an ironic tension between the abstract and the figural and between art and reality.Published References

Freeman, Phyllis, et al., New Art, New York, 1984, repr. p. 171.