{"product_id":"9783941263413","title":"Thomas Schütte: Frauen","description":"\u003cp\u003eDüsseldorf-based artist Thomas Schütte (born 1954) is one of the most idiosyncratic of present-day artists, venturing to deploy techniques, genres and themes long thought passé—such as the sculpturally formed female figure—in permanent materials such as bronze, aluminum and steel. Schütte began his \u003ci\u003eFrauen\u003c\/i\u003e series toward the end of the 1990s and, while his first reclining nudes can be understood within the language of Classicism, his later, monumental figures with sawn-off limbs and various distortions—sometimes with bodies steamrolled flat or in tantalizing poses—resist all attempts at easy categorization. But Schütte’s brutal treatment of the female form is motivated less by a desire to shock than by a concern with the figure as a present-day testing ground for artistic expression, one that is frequently shot through with Schütte’s characteristic morbid humor. \u003ci\u003eFrauen\u003c\/i\u003e contains almost 200 color reproductions, along with texts by Andrea Bellini and Dieter Schwarz.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Richter Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060964344048,"sku":"9783941263413","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9783941263413_p0.jpg?v=1763703794","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783941263413","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}