The evolution and cultural implications of the artist's remarkable sculpture, furniture, jewellery, public art commissions, and functional objects. Oka Doner translates organic forms into objects of natural seduction.
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Michele Oka Doner
Natural Seduction
Natural Seduction
Suzanne Ramljak,
Morris Lapidus, Arthur C. Danto
Forward by Mitchell Wolfson Jr.
Michele Oka Doner is an internationally acclaimed artist and designer whose prolific career spans four decades. This sumptuously illustrated monograph surveys the remarkable breadth of her artistic production, which encompasses sculpture, furniture, jewelry, public art, and functional objects from fireplace tools to teething rings. Oka Doner is perhaps best known for her numerous public art commissions, including those at New York’s Herald Square Subway Station and the Miami International Airport. Whether large-scale architectural projects, or intimately scaled objects, all of Oka Doner’s work is fueled by a lifelong study and appreciation of the natural world, from which she derives her formal vocabulary. Aptly called "nature’s scribe," she translates organic forms into objects of natural seduction. Oka Doner’s oeuvre is one seamless gesture, aimed at infusing our experience with beauty and wonder.
This valuable study examines the evolution and cultural implications of Oka Doner’s exceptional art, featuring essays by Suzanne Ramljak, art historian, editor of Metalsmith, and former editor of Sculpture; Arthur C. Danto, Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University, and art critic for The Nation; the late Morris Lapidus, architect of many South Florida landmarks including Miami Beach’s Fontainebleau hotel; and Mitchell Wolfson Jr., founder of The Wolfsonian Museum and publisher of The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts.
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Radiant Disk Table, 1i995 (detail)
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29 ½ x 29 ½ x 76 in.
About the Author
Suzanne Ramljak is the editor of Metalsmith magazine and lives in Bethel, Connecticut. Mitchell Wolfson, Founder, The Wolfsonian Museum and publisher, The Journal of Decorative & Propaganda Art, lives in Miami, Florida. Arthur Danto is Editor and President, Journal of Philosophy and Contributing Editor, ARTFORUM. He lives in New York City. Morris Lapidus, architect, was best known for designing the influential hotels of Miami Beach; most notably, the Fountainebleau.
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This book gives a thrilling sense of Michele Oka Doner's life and work, starting with her exposure to marine and plant life as a child in Miami, and details how this seminal experience continues to guide her artistic production. Gorgeous color illustrations complement scholarly essays lending insight into her encyclopedic imagination, her vast repertoire of sources, and her personal lexicon of images and text. Of particular interest is Suzanne Ramjlak's use of the marriage between Vulcan and Venus image to describe the union of opposites so prevalent in Oka Doner's oeuvre. Tracing her career of four decades, Natural Seduction explores the artist's exquisite craftsmanship, her ideas of beauty, pleasure, and grace, and her ties to nature and mythology as they apply to her functional art, her sculptures and installations, and her public commissions.
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A full-color photographic showcase,
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Enhanced with informed and informative essays by Morris Lapidus, Suzanne Ramljak, and Arthur C. Danto highlighting the central themes of the art, Michele Oka Doner: Natural Seduction is a full-color photographic showcase of the work of internationally acclaimed artist and designer Michele Oka Doner. Grand architectural projects, clay sculpture, drawings, cast silver, and many other types of media offer a broad spectrum of her artistic inspiration; including works celebrate the human figure, natural elements, and sweeping lines which are a recurring theme. Michele Oka Doner: Natural Seduction is an important and very welcome contribution to personal, professional, and academic 20th Century Art History/Art Appreciation collections.
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