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Informationen zum Autor Jim Dine wurde 1935 in Cincinnati! Ohio geboren. Er ist als Maler! Bildhauer und Grafiker tätig. Seine Werke wurden vielfach in Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen gezeigt; sie zählen zum Bestand der wichtigen Museen und Sammlungen weltweit. Zusammenfassung Night Fields! Day Fields is a survey of Jim Dine's sculpture from 1959 to 2009. Dine is commonly seen as a prolificpainter! printmaker and photographer whose central practice is drawing! but this book shows that sculpture is just asimportant in his oeuvre.Here we discover Dine's favourite and reoccurring motifs: hearts! tools! skulls! and Pinocchio! as well as Classicalsculpture in the form of Venus de Milo and Winged Victory. Dine's media are as diverse as his themes and includebronze! wood! glass and found objects. His styles are similarly manifold! testament to an artist who has shrugged offthe trappings of Pop Art to develop an eclectic body of styles that is unique and authoritative in contemporary art.Born in 1935 in Cincinnati! Ohio! Jim Dine completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Ohio in 1957! andhas since become one of the most profound and prolific contemporary artists. Dine's unparalleled career spans fiftyyears and his work is held in numerous private and public collections. His books at Steidl include Birds (2001)! ThePhotographs! so far (2003)! and Hot Dream (52 Books) (2008).
