Title: Statue: A symbol of power, beauty and historic value. Right?
Artist: Iris van der Zee
Designer: Iris van der Zee
Editor: Iris van der Zee
Imprint: Self Published
Printer: Drukkerij Tielen
Publication date and place: July, 2016 / The Hague, The Netherlands
Edition: 250
Format, binding: Cardboard cover / Wire’O
Size: 21 x 15 cm
Number of pages and images: 62 pages / 57 images
Type of printing and paper: offset / 300 g/m2 Biotop
Retail price: €20
Book Description: The statue: A symbol of power, beauty and historic value. Although, those are the dogmas it was created with. Placing the sculpture in contexts of violence, the piece no longer represents its maker’s ideas but seems to take on a life of its own. Getting beheaded by Isis; beat up by protestants, or buried after being cut in pieces in the outbacks of Berlin. Ages after the classical sculptor created his sculpture, I reconsider its symbolic meaning in the context of today’s violent events by using photography, sculpture, found footage and digitally manipulated documentation.
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- Title: Statue: A symbol of power, beauty and historic value. Right?