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Sculpture, Mixed Media on Other
Size: 13 W x 10 H x 13 D in
There is no category, style or subject that exactly fits this work. It is a shrine, a house of cards made of the artist's credit cards. It doesn't collapse because it is backed with Chinese money, and sits on a base of U.S. paper money that features the U. S. Treasury. Inside the house are two copies of Charles Mackay's classic work, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. One is the original 1852 edition, in the original binding by Burn of Hatton Garden. The other copy is a reprint of the 1932 L. C. page edition with an introduction by Bernard Baruch, bound in Minsky's credit cards. All the credit cards are real, original cards saved by the artist over several decades for this purpose. On exhibit at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts in Michigan City, Indiana, May 26 - August 26, 2012.
Sculpture:Mixed Media on Other
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:13 W x 10 H x 13 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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I've been making art and fabricating objects for six decades, using all sorts of materials and techniques, from a giant astrolabe commissioned to hang over a hotel bar to collaborating with other artists to construct installation works. Much of the art I am known for involves social commentary and working with materials that evoke the metaphor of the subject. I also create formal aesthetic works in color and spatial relationships, and produce decorative works. I am often commissioned to create bookbindings and books. These range from presentation copies for a best-selling author to prayer books for a monk, guest books for private homes, heads of government, museums, libraries, weddings, special events.... My unique and limited edition works are in more than a hundred museums and libraries in the USA and Europe, including the Victoria & Albert in London, the Metropolitan Museum in NYC, The National Gallery in Washington, the Getty Center in LA, Koninklijke Bibliotheek in Den Haag. In 2017 the Guild of Book Workers presented me with their Lifetime Achievement Award,and in 2018 I was honored as Laureate of the American Printing History Association. In 2010 Yale University mounted the exhibition Material Meets Metaphor: A Half Century of Book Art by Richard Minsky. A free PDF catalog is available for download from the Yale website http://www.library.yale.edu/arts/specialcollections/Material_Meets_Metaphor-Minsky2.pdf Yale Arts Library is home of the Richard Minsky Archive: https://web.library.yale.edu/arts/special-collections/interviews-with-richard-minsky and https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/arts.aob.0008
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