{"product_id":"paintings-volume-ii","title":"Paintings Volume II","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis monograph encompasses a single body of work by Wim Botha, focused on Michelangelo's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePietà\u003c\/em\u003e. Following Botha's 2004\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMieliepap Pietà\u003c\/em\u003e, a life-size replica of Michelangelo's original modelled from maize meal, in 2015 the artist produced a full-scale bronze extrapolation of the \u003cem\u003ePietà\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003einitially carved from polystyrene blocks; a suite of 119 studies on canvas and paper; and a drawing in three dimensions. The works, reproduced in the monograph, both support and disrupt the ideological, conceptual, material and historical meanings inscribed in the iconic 15th century piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book begins with an essay by Michael P Steinberg (author of studies on Hermann Broch, Aby Warburg, Walter Benjamin and Charlotte Salomon, among others) that looks at Botha's 'unique engagement of both form and meaning' in his\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePietà\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand previous\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLaocoön\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esculptures, and explores how his juxtaposition of materials, of sketches and sculptures, suggests 'a complex engagement with the modern, including the modern's retrieval of ancient icons'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zander Blom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45146943979674,"sku":"11609","price":820.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0350\/5704\/1545\/files\/xPCn6wIB3wZC_O81koka9-tpwR63PLxPZZAcO-EVpMo.jpg?v=1744288899","url":"https:\/\/store.a4arts.org\/en-us\/products\/paintings-volume-ii","provider":"A4 Arts Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}