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Rachel Feinstein
The first monograph from an art-world star whose work influences cultural luminaries from the worlds of fashion, film, and beyond.
Straddling pop culture, installation art, and contemporary culture, Rachel Feinstein's paintings, multipart installations, and additive sculptures reveal her singular flair for synthesizing myriad cultural fascinations--religion, myth, beauty, mortality, decadence--into lush vignettes of the marvelous. As an artist, she explores issues of taste and desire, fusing intellectual opposites like romance and pornography, elegance and kitsch, to create visually stunning tableaux that have intrigued and astonished art fans and critics alike. Rachel Feinstein is the artist's first major volume--a comprehensive look at her oeuvre, sculpture, paintings, pastels, and drawings and the definitive monograph surveying the work of this important female American artist. Beautifully designed and packaged, this volume provides a provoking and enlightening tour of this influential artist's body of work
Straddling pop culture, installation art, and contemporary culture, Rachel Feinstein's paintings, multipart installations, and additive sculptures reveal her singular flair for synthesizing myriad cultural fascinations--religion, myth, beauty, mortality, decadence--into lush vignettes of the marvelous. As an artist, she explores issues of taste and desire, fusing intellectual opposites like romance and pornography, elegance and kitsch, to create visually stunning tableaux that have intrigued and astonished art fans and critics alike. Rachel Feinstein is the artist's first major volume--a comprehensive look at her oeuvre, sculpture, paintings, pastels, and drawings and the definitive monograph surveying the work of this important female American artist. Beautifully designed and packaged, this volume provides a provoking and enlightening tour of this influential artist's body of work
240 pages, Hardcover
Published October 22, 2019
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January 22, 2025
“A person of faith, a true believer, knows that his faith is true and sees it as a universal truth. Magic does not imply truth; in fact, it alters the truth through magic and truth disappears through magic.” The self-titled artbook from Rachel Feinstein presents her evocative, arresting work alongside five conversations: ‘Mother’, with Sofia Coppola + Tamara Jenkins; ‘Witches’, with Lisa Yuskavage + Sarah Sze; ‘Nature vs Art’ with Ursula von Rydingsvard + Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee; ‘Fairy Tales vs God’ with Florence Welch + Evelyn Welch (her mother, an esteemed Renaissance material culturalist); and ‘Then vs Now’ with Roberto Peregalli, Laura Sartori Rimini + Marc Jacobs. Throughout these fresh and lively dialogues, the speakers cover art, Serena Williams, motherhood, rage, witchcraft, Nabokov + unreliable narrators, nature, childhood, new technologies and death, music and connection (including Florence’s observation that “gigs are like agnostic churches”), the past, Europe, value, fashion, modernity, tech, and darkness vs light.
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