All Creatures Great and Small
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All Creatures Great and Small
by Authors:
Carl Haenlein , Kiki Smith , Carsten Ahrens
Released: 30 September, 1999
ISBN: 3908247047
Hardcover
Sales Rank: 209,579
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Customer Review #1:
 Simply beautiful
Kiki Smiths work may seem impossible to document in book form but this book does a terrific job of conveying the power and delicacy of her art. The reproductions are gorgeous, and the essay is extremely readable. A must for any contemporary art book collection!
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Customer Review #2:
 probably not on the bookstore shelf, but it should be
This hardback is small for an art book (measures 6 in. wide by 8 in. long), but it is packed with full-color plates of Smiths work. The book seems to have been published in connection with an exhibition at the Kestner Gesellschaft in Germany. The plates include details and installation shots from what appears to have been a large and fairly comprehensive one-person show. Smiths work is elegant and direct, wide-ranging in subject but closely related in meaning. In his essay, Carsten Ahrens states "Kiki Smith has ....continually hinted at the close proximity between art and the ideas of Catholicism, which are similar in their belief in the spiritual potential of the physical." Though I found most of the essay difficult to digest, I consider that statement a gem. To me, Smiths art is about the frail, feeling, physical world and the force of life itself. The back of the book features a selection of Smiths iris prints. I was delighted to discover these, as I was unaware that Smith does work in photography. I think they are quite nice, and I am impressed that she is able to work in such a range of mediums. Though I do not consider the book a substitute for a monograph, it is an excellent resource. One star deducted for photo quality--well-composed but occasionally fuzzy.
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Customer Review #3:
Kiki Smith is the Neil Young of the art world
Prolific and out on her own sense of self Kiki Smith is jaunting into areas both powerful and perplexing. Shes not who you think she is.
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