- Hardcover: 112 pages
- Publisher: Rizzoli (Dec 13 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0847824403
- ISBN-13: 978-0847824403
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 1.8 x 23.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 757 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,343,598 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
As many teen and tween boys discovered in a famed mid-'70s issue of Dynamite magazine, Farrah Fawcett (then Farrah Fawcett Majors), in addition to being the Charlie's Angels starring actress, is an artist. Edmier was one of those boys, and as he developed into an artist himself, he has incorporated the odd eros of pop celebrity into his work-including a specific investigation of the iconic 1977 poster of Farrah in a red bathing suit. This book chronicles the two artists' collaboration, at Edmier's instigation, over two years beginning in 2000, resulting in several works documented here-most spectacularly two life-size sculptures of Edmier and Fawcett as Pygmalion and his statue. An essay by Zelevansky, curator and department head of modern and contemporary art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, explains the Pygmalion myth and gives an overview of Edmier and Fawcett's careers, as well as detailing the development of the project, for which both artists modeled. Edmier is shown in sinewy, full-frontal nude, while Fawcett reclines alluringly, but not quite revealingly. There is a particularly fetching shot of Farrah relaxing in a Korn tank top, and a photo of a nude female torso that may or may not be the actress. Readers will feel dared to try to label the undertaking lurid, and despite the essay's attempts to give it weight, the whole finally comes off as little more than an Edmier fetish.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
About the Author
Farrah Fawcett is known the world over as a film and TV actress. An art student at the University of Texas Austin in the seventies, her career in art was cut short when she launched her acting career.
Keith Edmier has a distinguished list of exhibition credits, including this year's prestigious Whitney Biennial. He is currently working on a sculpture project that will be installed at the entrance to Central Park.
The new author is Lynn Zelevansky curator of contemoprary art from LACMA. She is a well-known and highly-regarded curator. Before her post at LACMA, she was a curator at MOMA.
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visual documentary of artistic collaboration, Jan 19 2007
By blondeguy10 "blondeguy10" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Keith Edmier and Farah Fawcett (Hardcover)
This is a printed visual documentary of a collaboration between artist Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett (the Farrah Fawcett also a very talented artist)anyone who has watched her ALL OF ME video will already be aware of talent in sculpture. Edmier produced a marble statue of Fawcett reclining and she did a life size bronze sculpture of him, the photographs document their artistic process and are very interesting. The essay is a bit twee and it would have been interesting to add more complete bios of both artists.PS: has their ever been two more physically perfect artists?
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