Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Bronze Statues in Los Angeles

circle of Jacquio Ponce
Reclining Allegorical Figures of Magnificence and Magnanimity
ca. 1575
bronze
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

"The unconscious is an interference apparatus that produces slips of the tongue, mistakes, sudden failures of recall, and so on. As we've seen, in analysis all these mistakes can supposedly be interpreted, as having unconscious intentions, so they are not really mistakes at all. Nevertheless, Freud's vision of the mind stressed its internal division and opacity."

Anonymous Italian sculptor
Figure of Portia
ca. 1680
bronze
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Antoine Etex
Death of Hyacinthus
ca. 1829
bronze
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

"Lacan, following Freud, located that internal split in the subject's relation to language: language precedes the self and exceeds its control, so language is also a major interference apparatus. This insight has led literary theorists, including Barthes, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault to think of the literary text in the same way, that is, as exceeding its author's control."

Frederic Leighton
The Sluggard
ca. 1890
bronze
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Francisque-Joseph Duret
Dancing Neapolitan boy
ca. 1838
bronze
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

"We are perhaps nearing an understanding of the meaning of chance in art. It would, of course, be unbearable if our intentions were regularly frustrated. Yet there is something terribly arid, not to say mechanistic, in the idea of a world where all our purposes result in predictable consequences, where we are completely transparent to ourselves and where intentions always result in expected actions."

 quoted passages are from Margaret Iverson's essay The Aesthetics of Chance, published by Whitechapel Gallery in 2010

Giacomo Zoffoli
copy of the Apollo Belvedere
late 18th century
bronze
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Anonymous Florentine sculptor
Risen Christ
ca. 1620
bronze
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Giovanni Battista Foggini
Time Ravishing Beauty
ca. 1700-1725
bronze
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Anonymous Egyptian sculptor
Figurine of the God Bes
25th Dynasty, 711-657 BC
bronze
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Antoine-Louis Barye
Theseus and the Minotaur
ca. 1860
bronze
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Guillaume Boichot
Seated Hercules
ca. 1795
bronze
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
(gift of William Randolph Hearst)

Auguste Rodin
Female Centaur
ca. 1887-89
bronze
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Auguste Rodin
Female Centaur
ca. 1887-89
bronze
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Auguste Rodin
The Shade
ca. 1880
bronze
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

I am grateful to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for making photographs of the sculpture collection available.