Titre : Book with Wings
Auteurs : Anselm Kiefer
Année de création: 1992-1994
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Support numérique de l’œuvre : Aucun (sculpture faite en plomb, étain et acier)
Caractéristiques médiatiques : Aucune
Types d’interaction : Aucune
Thèmes : sculpture, figure du livre
Langue : N/A
Description existante : « Since 1969 Anselm Kiefer has consistently returned to the book as subject matter. As a primary source of knowledge and a repository of world religions, books are a powerful and paradoxical symbol for the artist. Eventually Kiefer’s books became freestanding sculptures, massive symbols of the artist’s investigation of world knowledge through images. Book with Wings consists of a massive lead book supported on a steel lectern. The pages of the open book sprout two majestic wings. The Museum’s book is one of two made by Kiefer, “one triumphant and the other drooping and in repose.” The Modern’s winged book is the triumphant version, its wings lifting high off the pages, as if about to take flight. Nonetheless, this sculpture, like so much of the artist’s work, is ironic—the wings are made of lead, and therefore cannot fly. »
Source: TheModern. « Book with Wings ». Description sur le site <http://www.themodern.org/collection/Book-with-Wings/1156>. Consulté le 4 juillet 2017.
Citations de l'artiste:
« Dans mon œuvre , le livre est très important. Il est un répertoire de formes et une manière de matérialiser le temps qui passe (…).Certains sont des véritables sculptures plus grands que la taille humaine,ouverts mais impossible à feuilleter. » (Référence: https://www.babelio.com/auteur/Anselm-Kiefer/132853#citations)