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George Segal: Bronze  
Author: George Segal (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0971384487
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Book Description
In the late 1960s, George Segal began "double-casting" his work -- taking a second cast from inside the mold of the original cast. This process brought finer detail to the surface and was part of his evolution to a more naturalizing image. When, in the 1980s, he began making bronze work for outdoor installation, he continued this double-casting technique and all his bronzes were made from finished plasters. As Carroll Janis writes in the introduction, "Segal's plaster sculpture presents an existential situation; the surrogate figure, more fagile and removed from reality when set next to the real object. The bronzes appear to reverse this idea by asserting the strength and permanence of the human figure within the surrounding environment." Essay by Joan Pachner.~Introduction by Carroll Janis. Paperback, 10.5 x 9 in./81 pgs / 59 b&w.




George Segal: Bronze

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The empathetic figures for which George Segal is known begin as plaster shells cast from live models. Segal began "double casting" from these plaster forms in 1971 so as to fulfill his vision of creating work that could engage as many viewers as possible. Bronze is the first publication to focus exclusively on this aspect of Segal's oeuvre.

     



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