Hannah Dougherty: the Gartenhaus Project and Recent Works 2005/2006 |
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Artist:
| Dougherty, Hannah |
Text by:
| Grau, Lenny Pace, Alessandra |
ISBN: | 978-3-8030-3206-5 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2007 |
Publisher: | Ernst J. Wasmuth Verlag GmbH & Company
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $25.00 |
Book Description:
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The Berlin-based American artist Hannah Dougherty's strong, evocative paintings, collages and installations are characterized by a dreamy, mythological feel, as much from her distinctive palette as from her retro, hybrid figures, which take their inspiration from children's book illustrations, comic strips and 1950s advertisements, with a little bit of Dürer and old school
Encyclopedia Brittanicathrown in. In her recent Berlin installation,
The Gartenhaus Project,...
More DescriptionThe Berlin-based American artist Hannah Dougherty's strong, evocative paintings, collages and installations are characterized by a dreamy, mythological feel, as much from her distinctive palette as from her retro, hybrid figures, which take their inspiration from children's book illustrations, comic strips and 1950s advertisements, with a little bit of Dürer and old school Encyclopedia Brittanicathrown in. In her recent Berlin installation, The Gartenhaus Project, Dougherty glued handwritten notes and scraps of paper like a 1939 Berlin butcher's bill and a Japanese train schedule to her paintings, mostly upside-down, so that they functioned as barely legible memorabilia. She also created a kind of "theater set" representation of an Arcadian suburb, complete with dramatic twilight-evoking spotlights, kitschy prefabricated garden houses, pots of artificial flowers, stuffed fox and deer, and prop-like, anthropomorphized wooden birdhouses--much more sinister than jolly, like dark little garden gnomes. This volume documents The Gartenhaus Projectin full.