The Materiality of Mourning
by Mary Schneider Enriquez ; with contr. by Doris Salcedo, Narayan Khandekar
- Author(s)
- Doris Salcedo, Narayan Khandekar
- Editor(s)
- Mary Schneider Enriquez
- Publication
- Cambridge (MA) : Harvard Art Museums, 2016
- Scope
- 196 Pages, illustrated, 27 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780300222517
Colombian sculptor and installation artist Doris Salcedo (b. 1958) creates works that address political violence and oppression. This book, published accompanying the similar titled exhibition at the Harvard Art Museums (Nov. 4, 2016 - April 9, 2017), focuses on Salcedo’s works from 2001 to 2016, examining the development and evolution of her approach. Salcedo continuously pushes her sculptures toward new extremes, incorporating organic materials - rose petals, grass, soil - in order to blur the line between the permanent and the ephemeral. Schneider Enriquez argues for viewing Salcedo’s oeuvre not just through a particular theoretical lens, such as violence studies or trauma and memory studies, but also for the way the artist expands the traditions of sculpture as a medium.
- Person as subject
- Doris Salcedo
- Keywords
- art in public space , critical aesthetics , sculpture
- Location
- Cabinet 7 - 3: Kunstenaars
- Remarks
- Includes notes, bibliography, index
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