书名：Trophy Lives: On the Celebrity as an Art Object / 奖杯人生：名人作为艺术对象
定价：128.0
ISBN：9781915743121
作者：Philippa Snow
版次：1
出版时间：2023-03

内容提要：

题 目：Trophy Lives: On the Celebrity as an Art Object / 奖杯人生：名人作为艺术对象

作 者：Philippa Snow

出 版：Mack ，2024

装 帧：平装，104页

尺 寸：12.5*19.5 cm

 

 

我们知道，名人可以成为极佳的创作灵感来源：想想理查德·菲利普斯的作品，他创作了一整个系列，灵感来自林赛·罗韩、罗伯特·帕丁森和麦莉·赛勒斯；再想想乌尔斯·菲舍尔，他最近展示了一尊以莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥为原型的真人大小蜡烛雕塑。众所周知，艺术收藏家彼得·布兰特委托意大利裔美国艺术家毛里齐奥·卡特兰——一位以讽刺手法闻名的大师——为其妻子、超模斯蒂芬妮·西摩制作了一尊雕塑。这件作品正式名称为《斯蒂芬妮》，但在业内却以“奖杯妻子”而著称。雕塑估价150万美元，而斯蒂芬妮本人的身价据称高达1亿美元，这不禁让人想探究，究竟哪一件才算是“更出色”的艺术品。

 

在这篇图文并茂的论文中，评论家菲利帕·斯诺提出了这样一个问题：所有伟大的、或标志性的名人，从技术上讲，是否都可以被视为自成一体的、自我创作的艺术品。她援引了过去二十年来广泛的文化参考，提出随着名人私生活的日益公开化，从而也变得更加艺术化地呈现，名人本身越来越可以成为当代艺术的一种媒介，一种神话制造和形象塑造的形式，其复杂性、概念性和吸引力丝毫不逊于传统艺术家的作品。

 

《话语》是一系列小册子，理论家、艺术家或作家在其中就某一主题、艺术品、思想或另一个人物，通过一篇长篇文字展开对话。在此处浏览全系列。

 

We know that celebrities can make great muses: think of the work of Richard Phillips, who has painted an entire series of works inspired by Lindsay Lohan, Robert Pattinson, and Miley Cyrus, or of Urs Fischer, who recently showed a life-sized candle in the shape of Leonardo DiCaprio. Notoriously, the art collector Peter Brant commissioned the wickedly satirical Italian American artist Maurizio Cattelan to make a sculpture of his wife, the supermodel Stephanie Seymour. The work was technically called ‘Stephanie’, but became known in the industry as ‘Trophy Wife’. With the sculpture valued at 1.5 million dollars, while Seymour herself is purportedly worth one hundred million dollars, you might be tempted to wonder which has the claim to be the ‘better’ work of art.

 

In this illustrated essay, critic Philippa Snow asks whether all great, or iconic, celebrities can be considered technically self-authored artworks in and of themselves. Drawing on a wide range of cultural references from the past two decades, she proposes that increasingly – as celebrities’ private lives become more visible and thus more art-directed – celebrity itself can be a medium for contemporary art, a form of mythmaking and image-making that is every bit as complex, conceptual, and compelling as the work of a traditional artist.