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Ron Mueck by Robert Storr, Justin Paton

superkaren's review

5.0

“The skin over his cheekbones was flat, though not taut, and the skin hung off the bone like curtains and gathered in loose jowly folds at the bottoms of his cheeks, and a fold of skin stretched from his chin to his throat like a cockscomb. Beatrice look at the different parts of Henry’s face for so long that they became discrete entities in her eyes, not the parts of a single face, but merely a mouth, a nose, an eye, another eye, a fluted veined translucent ear. She saw age in each of these details but not just age. She saw something more; she saw ears, eyes, nose, mouth, she saw his face, in each of its ages, as it had been and as it was now; she saw history. She saw time.”
Ron Mueck’s Couple Under an Umbrella reminds one of Dale Peck’s novel The Law of Enclosures.

This book was illuminating. It fleshed out (if you will) Mueck's place within art.