ISBN: 0896593282 9780896593282

Category: Art / Individual Artists / General

Page count: 128

"George Segal has enlivened contemporary sculpture with his evocative plaster figures. He is best known for his down-to-earth scenes of humble characters in urban environments - a butcher shop, a diner, a local cinema. The familiarity of such mundane surroundings makes Segal's work, at first glance, look deceptively simple. However, as Phyllis Tuchman persuasively explains in her lively and enlightening text, the apparent simplicity of Segal's sculpture masks a rich complexity of meaning. His work is filled with variations on multiple themes, including the female nude, biblical subject matter, and modern art and artists. Even subtlest in a Segal sculpture - the position of a coffee cup, a space on a park bench - may contribute an additional level of content."--BOOK COVER.