{"product_id":"charles-ray-sculpture-19972014-9783775737937","title":"Charles Ray: Sculpture, 1997-2014","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharles Ray: Sculpture, 1997-2014\u003c\/strong\u003e by Fried, Michael. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9783775737937.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharles Ray (born 1953) is one of America’s most outstanding contemporary sculptors. Like Jeff Koons and Katharina Fritsch, he has developed a new kind of plastic figuration, as can be seen in his white-painted steel sculpture “Boy with Frog” (2009), whose recent installation on the Punta della Dogana in Venice drew a great deal of critical and popular attention. Despite its apparent naturalism, Ray’s oversized figure of a nude boy frolicking animatedly, even rabidly, with the animal world, verges upon the classical. “Horse and Rider,” a self-portrait of the artist on horseback (2014), likewise revives the traditional images of the horseback rider and the hero of the American West, but in a way that is decidedly anti-heroic. This volume offers a comprehensive monograph on Ray’s sculptural works of recent years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hatje Cantz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44977580998709,"sku":"ByrdShop_3775737936","price":166.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9783775737937_11ce8704-1435-4031-8e6e-2d532ddb3095.jpg?v=1778703841","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/charles-ray-sculpture-19972014-9783775737937","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}