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Steve Tobin's Natural History
Donald Kuspit
For me, profound transformation has to happen for it to be art. Just taking something and turning it into bronze doesn't make it art.
For more than twenty years the work of iconoclastic sculptor Steve Tobin has affected the general public, museum curators, and art critics on a profound level in its transformation of the wonders of nature into monumental sculptures in bronze, steel, glass, and clay. Tobin's work captures in unique, memorable, and often allegorical form, natural as well as common place objects whose meaning and implications we may have otherwise overlooked. This impressive publication is the first comprehensive study of Tobin's principal bodies of work, from his early blown glass Cocoons and cast-glass Doors, through his luminous Waterglass, to the more recent Shelters and Earth Bronzes which include the highly acclaimed African Termite Hills, Bone sculptures, and signature cast Roots. Tobin's most recent and provocative new Exploded Clay sculptures are also well represented. The philosophical and spiritual dynamic as well as the evolution of Tobin's art is carefully explored by Donald Kuspit, distinguished art critic, and Hudson Hills Press's author of Jimmy Ernst and Don Eddy: The Art of Paradox.
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