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FEUERMAN: SUPERREALIST sculptures

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Essay by Demetrio Paparoni
Hardcover with Slipcover
240mm x 310mm, 336 pages in 4/4 colors

This is the most comprehensive illustrated monograph on major American artist Carole A. Feuerman, a pioneer of superrealism in sculpture.

Carole Feuerman is best known for her figurative sculptures depicting swimmers and dancers. She is the only woman to sculpt in this style, creating lifelike works for both indoor and outdoor spaces

During the rise of postmodernism in the mid-seventies, Feuerman drew inspiration from historical imagery and styles while creating 3D illustrations for prominent magazines and tour publications featuring rock icons like the Rolling Stones and Alice Cooper. Her debut life casting in 1975, showcased on the cover of the National Lampoon, marked a significant artistic achievement.

Transitioning into the late 1970s, Feuerman delved into creating fragmented erotic compositions, adding complexity to her work. As a narrative artist, she infuses her sculptures with symbolic depth, inviting viewers into a dialogue. Informed by postmodernist thought, the 1980s saw Feuerman create lifelike, full-figure super-realistic sculptures, solidifying her artistic career and legacy.

Her passion for water and the ocean stems from her childhood at the beach. Feuerman describes the sensation of water droplets on her skin after swimming and the intricate patterns they formed as captivating. The beach became her sanctuary—a place of escape and tranquility. During a beach outing with her children, she encountered a swimmer with water droplets streaming down her face, radiating a sense of pride and accomplishment. This encounter catalyzed her first swimmer sculpture, Catalina (1978).

This lavishly illustrated book covers Feuerman’s five-decade career and features over 200 works.

Demetrio Paparoni is an art critic, curator, and essayist. In 1983, he founded the contemporary art magazine Tema Celeste and the publishing house bearing the same name.

My Hyperrealist Life and Legacy: Second Edition

I wrote my autobiography, hoping to help others find their own inspiration after reading about my life and my work. After all, life is too short, so pursue what you love today because you never know what tomorrow will bring.
Available to Read And Purchase on Amazon and my website.

When you talk about art, Carole Feuerman personifies it. She is one of her generation’s best sculptors and has immense respect from all her peers and contributors alike. Those from her era know her very well through her grand exhibitions, and it just so happens that she is a leading figure of inspiration for many upcoming sculptors of this era.

So, what makes her so great? Or even better yet, why is she one of the biggest names in the industry?

There are several reasons she is at such a prominent level of stardom. And just like many big-name celebrities, Carole has a very inspiring story of her own to earn the amount of praise and spotlight she gets everywhere she goes. Moreover, the world can now know all about her through her new book, For My Hyperrealist Life and Legacy.

Written by Carole herself, For My Hyperrealist Life and Legacy is a two-edition book highlighting all the candidness that very few people know about. The first edition will talk about herself, how she got into making sculptures, her struggles to survive the odds through balance, perseverance, and independence to fulfill her true calling, and her life from there onwards. In comparison, the second edition will talk more about how she perfected her sculpturing and how it got her successful and recognized in some of the world’s biggest art exhibitions while advising the newer generation on how they achieve success in any art form.

For My Hyperrealist Life and Legacy isn’t the first time Carole Feuerman has published a book. Besides writing her biography in For My Hyperrealist Life and Legacy, Carole has also written Carole A. Feuerman: 50 Years of Looking Good, Carole Feuerman: Swimmers, Carole A. Feuerman Sculpture, and Carole A. Feuerman: La Scultura Incontra la Realta.

You can get your copy of For My Hyperrealist Life and Legacy today from any online store and be impressed by the life of a legendary artist.

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My Hyperrealist Life And Legacy

"This book dives deep into my experiences as a woman artist. It highlights my struggles to survive the odds through balance, perseverance, and independence on my journey to fulfilling my true calling. Art has always been my saving grace."

Whether it be finding new work, financial uncertainty, or contemplating failure, fear has a special place in our emotional life. By compulsion, our minds are designed to let fear in. Without it, we’d never survive. But how to keep suspicion away from restricting our ability to fulfill our goals? Carole describes it all in this effort1

Conquering fear is about wisdom, self-awareness, and understanding our inner strengths – often in the face of overwhelming odds in life. We can also practice and cultivate these winning personality traits, everything gets easier over time. Feuerman’s book intends to educate the readers about surviving all the odds in life. Her thought-provoking stories can stimulate the readers to overcome all their fears and live a satisfying life.

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**Carole Feuerman at Book Signing at the El Paso Museum of Art**

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Carole A. Feuerman: 50 Years of Looking Good

Edited by John T. Spike
Hardback, approx. 192 pages, 119 color illustrations
JANUARY 2020

The most comprehensive monograph to date on major American artist Carole A. Feuerman, a pioneer of hyperrealism in sculpture lavishly illustrated and covering Feuerman’s entire career spanning five decades, featuring more than 200 works Carole A. Feuerman is celebrated as a pioneer and one of America’s major pioneers of Hyperrealism in sculpture, alongside Duane Hanson and John De Andrea. Born 1945 and educated in New York and Philadelphia, she began as an illustrator before turning to sculpture in the 1970s, soon gaining much recognition and early success. Her work has been displayed in many group shows and solo exhibitions at private galleries and public museums, as well as at major art fairs, in America, Europe, and Asia. Over five decades, Feuerman has created visual manifestations of stories telling of strength, survival, and balance. Her subject matter is the human figure, most often a woman in an introspective moment of exuberant self-consciousness shaded by erotic lassitude. Feuerman’s works represent a female state of mind rather than an alluring body meant to attract the male gaze. They suggest that women look at themselves differently from men looking at them, that a woman is more innately creative than a man. This book is the most comprehensive survey of Feuerman’s oeuvre to date. Lavishly illustrated in color throughout, it demonstrates the variety of materials and media she uses and highlights the specific qualities of her figures.

John T. Spike is an American-born distinguished art historian, curator, author and lecturer specializing in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art, and an eminent critic of contemporary art. Additional essays by John Yau and Claudia Moscovici.

Carole Feuerman: Swimmers
by John Yau (Author), John Spike (Author), Carole Feuerman (Artist)

Realist sculptor Carole Feuerman's human-figure sculptures express a refreshing perspective on the mundane but intensely personal activities of modern life. Her powers of observation and versatility are expressed through various materials that include marble, bronze, vinyl and painted resins; she also incorporates both ancient and contemporary methods in the creation of her works. In this new collection, Feuerman's treatment of the figure on paper is also explored for the first time. In an accompanying essay, John Yau describes Feuerman's exquisitely rendered subjects as "caught in a moment of transition that radiates an intense eroticism." Her figures evoke an inward life that invites our speculation while revealing a chasm between the figures and the viewer. Feuerman's sculpture and prints provide us with a fleeting glimpse into private and isolated environments--women stepping out of the shower, in the rain, or swimming--that suggest a meditative bliss.

JUNE 2014 HARDCOVER ISBN 0988855747 144 PAGES | Published by The Artist Book Foundation

Carole A. Feuerman Sculpture, Second Edition

by Dena Merriam and Eleanor Munro

Revised edition featuring recent work and an extensive new biography of one of the major figurative sculptors working in America today. Feuerman’s monumental Olympic Swimmer was featured in the Olympic Fine Arts exhibition at the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, the largest piece commissioned from an American artist. Carole A. Feuerman’s sculpture combines breathtaking super-realist technique with a humanist approach to her subjects. This revised monograph features David Finn’s dramatic photographs covering nearly three decades of her work, including many enlarged details and multiple views that provide a cinematic experience.

The work—in resin, cast marble, bronze, and other materials, often painted—ranges from early erotic reliefs through life-size sculptures of athletes and nudes. Her work is motivated by questions about the nature of reality, and her remarkable artistic skill leads the viewer to the same questions. Yet beyond the simulacrum of reality, Feuerman also manages to convey the feeling behind the intense physicality, the passion, and sensuality of mundane poses.

FEBRUARY 2010 HARDCOVER Second Edition ISBN 13: 978-1-55595-323-2 ISBN: 1-55595-323-9 188 pages

Published by Hudson Hills Press

Carole A. Feuerman: La Scultura Incontra la Realta (In English & Italian)

by Gabriele Caioni

Carole A. Feuerman was born in Connecticut, but has always lived and worked in New York, between Soho and Chelsea. As noted by John Spike, she was a full generation younger than Duane Hanson and John de Andrea, but is one of the pioneers of life-sized and lifelike figure sculpture, down to the tiniest detail. In the early 70s, while Hanson was exhibiting his supermarket shoppers and other Pop Art satires, Feuerman was drawing album art for Alice Cooper and the Rolling Stones (Monkey Man). When she turned to sculpture in 1978, she took super-realism in a new direction: she got personal.

Contents: Water, air, earth (by Viola Romoli) – Diary – Fires – Artworks – Bibliography and catalogues – Selected exhibition history – Artwork Index Testi in italiano e in inglese / Italian and English text Fotografie di / photos by Alessandro Moggi.

DECEMBER 2008 PAPERBACK Bilingual Edition ISBN 13: 978-8-85960-410-5 ISBN: 8-85960-410-9 146 pages

Published by Edizioni Polistampa

Carole A. Feuerman Sculpture, First Edition

by Dena Merriam

Carole A. Feuerman’s sculpture combines breathtaking superrealist technique with a humanist approach to her subjects. This first monograph on her work is filled with David Finn’s dramatic photographs covering two decades of her work, including many enlarged details and multiple views, providing a cinematic, almost three-dimensional experience. The work– in resin, cast marble, bronze, and other materials, often painted– ranges from early erotic reliefs through full-scale sculptures of athletes and nudes. Her women at their toilette are sculptural tours-de-force, yet their intimacy recalls Degas’ works on similar themes. Recent fragments and body mappings are experiments with abstraction, deconstruction, and conceptualism, at the same time that they explore the emotional life of their subjects, penetrating to their spirit.

All of Feuerman’s work reflects the two aspects of her vision. Her work is motivated by questions about the nature of reality, and her remarkable skill as an artist leads the viewer to the same questions. Yet beyond the simulacrum of reality, Feuerman also manages to convey the feeling behind the intense physicality, the passion and sensuality behind the seemingly mundane pose.

APRIL 1999 HARDCOVER First Edition ISBN 13: 978-1-55595-177-1 ISBN: 1-55595-177-5 167 pages

Published by Hudson Hills Press

Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960s

by David Rubin

Published by The MIT Press

This eye-popping book offers a visual history of the psychedelic sensibility. In pop culture, that sensibility is associated with lava lamps, album covers, and "teashades," but it first manifested itself in the extreme colors and kaleidoscopic compositions of 1960s Op Artists. The psychedelic sensibility didn't die at the end of the 1960s; as contemporary art evolved into a diverse and pluralistic discipline, the psychedelic evolved into a language of color and light. In Psychedelic, more than seventy-five vivid color images chart this development, exploring the art chronologically, from early Op Art through recent work using digital technology. The book, which accompanies an exhibition organized by the San Antonio Museum of Art, includes three essays that set the works in historical and cultural context.

MARCH 2010 HARDCOVER ISBN 13: 978-0262014045 ISBN: 0262014041 138 pages

Intimacy!: Bathing in Art

by Burkhard Leismann

Published by Wienand Verlag

Across time and in every culture, bathing represents a primal urge. This book provides a broad historical and thematic overview of the bath, examining its traditions in the Orient and Japan, looking at modern spas and illuminating the bath as a scene often depicted in movies as the setting in which mayhem is committed. Throughout the world, a ritual bath is linked to traditions, and social, cultural and religious practices. Art often connects bathing with biblical and mythological stories, such as Susanna and the Old, of Bathsheba or Diana and Aktaion. Bathing in art reflects different perceptions of the body, highlighting beauty and vulnerability ? and linking them to perceptions of intimacy. Water has metamorphic powers:: rejuvenating and transformative, capable of returning original innocence. Featuring 140 works of art dating from the 15th century to the modern, the book casts a spell of suspense and intimacy through paintings, drawings, prints, photography, sculpture and video.

MAY 2010 HARDCOVER ISBN 13: 978-3868320206 ISBN 10: 3868320202 320 pages

A Trick of the Eye: Trompe L'Oeil Masterpieces

by Eckhard Hollmann

Published by Prestel Publishing

From its eye-popping cover to the last page, this collection of optical illusion, hyper-realism, and visual puns is a fun and fascinating exploration of five centuries of trompe l'oeil painting. Each of the forty paintings in this book is presented twice - a first glimpse of the painting captures one reality, and then a subsequent view reveals the visual deception within. In this way readers are introduced to some of the tricks artists have skillfully and playfully deployed over the years to manipulate spatial perception. A Trick of the Eye includes examples of trompe l'oeil from Renaissance masters such as van Eyck and Veronese to modern works by Rene Magritte and Duane Hanson, among many others. Engaging texts describe each work, but the real magic is in the illustrations, which offer an intriguing visual experience.

NOVEMBER 2004 HARDCOVER ISBN 13: 978-3791331638 ISBN 10: 3791331639 96 pages

A History of Western Art: From Prehistory to the Twentieth Century

by Antony Mason and John T. Spike

Published by Harry N. Abrams

Lavishly illustrated with more than 250 full-color reproductions of artworks, details, photographs, and documents, this informative book provides a sweeping overview of Western art. The book begins with the cave paintings at Lascaux, France, and continues on with the art and architecture of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome through Early Christian, Byzantine, and medieval art and on to the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. Then it proceeds from Neoclassicism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Modernism up to the art of the late twentieth century. The book is filled with paintings, sculpture, mosaics, and architecture by such renowned artists as Paolo Uccello, Jan van Eyck, Filippo Brunelleschi, Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Gainsborough, Goya, Turner, Monet, Renoir, Auguste Rodin, Georges Braque, Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollock, David Hockney, and Andy Warhol.

JANUARY 2008 HARDCOVER ISBN 13: 978-0810994218 ISBN 10: 0810994216 128 pages

At Home with Art: How Art Lovers Live with and Care for Their Treasures

by Estelle Ellis

Published by Clarkson Potter

At Home with Art is about art lovers, their passion for art, and their seemingly unquenchable desire to bring home the works that have captured their hearts. Whether the artworks are Picassos or posters, these people want to acquire and live with the art they love. "I wake up in the morning and exercise where I can look at it," says John Robson about one of the paintings in his San Francisco townhouse. How these art lovers integrate their finds into their living spaces, juxtaposing their paintings and sculpture with the artifacts of everyday life -- furniture, rugs, books, lamps, objets d'art -- is vividly illustrated here in more than fifty homes inhabited by people for whom living with art is as essential as breathing.

NOVEMBER 1999 HARDCOVER ISBN 13: 978-0517708880 ISBN 10: 0517708884 256 pages

An American Odyssey 1945/1980 (Debating Modernism)

by Stephen C. Foster

Published by Queensborough Community College

The American Odyssey (1945-1980) Examines the early Avant-Garde movements in the United States, with reached maturity after the definitive shift of the world's artistic centre from Paris to New York, following the Second World War.

2005 HARDCOVER 411 pages