FEUERMAN: Superrealist sculptures
A lavishly illustrated monograph celebrating five decades of work by Carole A. Feuerman, a pioneering American superrealist sculptor renowned for her lifelike figures of swimmers and dancers.
Tracing her artistic journey from the 1970s to today, the book explores Feuerman’s evolving style, creative influences, and fascination with the human body, water, and movement. Featuring more than 200 works, it offers a comprehensive look at her career and lasting contribution to contemporary sculpture.
Featured essay available here:
I AM MINE: Carole A. Feuerman
Feuerman’s latest book “I Am Mine” is published by Moebius. Focusing on her early works from the 1970s, the book offers a broader reflection on the art scene of that time, and includes essays by six leading female art critics and historians: Barbara Buhler Lynes, Leanne Sacramone, Gloria Moure, Tone Lyngstad Nyaas, Victoria Noel-Johnson, and Helga Marsala.
Essays are available to read here:
Tone Lyngstad Nyaas - Body, Fragment and the Androgyny of Sexuality (PDF)
Leanne Sacramone - Carole Feuerman’s Fragmented Bodies (PDF)
Helga Marsala - Carole Feuerman. Fragments and Figures on the Threshold (PDF)
Gloria Moure - A Discontinuous Body. Carole A. Feuerman at her Genesis (PDF)
Victoria Noel-Johnson - Feuerman’s Fragments (1976): In Search of Wholeness (PDF)
Barbara Buhler Lynes - Carole A. Feuerman’s 1976 Body Part Fragments (PDF)
Carole Feuerman: Swimmers
by John Yau & John Spike
Carole Feuerman’s figurative sculptures and works on paper capture intimate moments of everyday life through remarkable realism and technical versatility. Working across materials such as marble, bronze, vinyl, and resin, Feuerman explores themes of isolation, sensuality, and contemplation. Her figures, often depicted swimming, showering, or caught in moments of transition, invite viewers into private worlds of quiet reflection.
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Carole A. Feuerman: 50 Years of Looking Good
Edited by John T. Spike
A comprehensive, lavishly illustrated monograph exploring five decades of work by Carole A. Feuerman, a pioneer of American hyperrealist sculpture. Featuring more than 200 works, the book traces her artistic career, showcasing her lifelike figures and diverse use of materials and techniques. Through themes of strength, survival, balance, and female identity, Feuerman captures intimate moments that reveal the inner lives and emotions of her subjects.
John T. Spike is an American-born distinguished art historian, curator, author and lecturer specializing in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art, and an eminent critic of contemporary art. Additional essays by John Yau and Claudia Moscovici.
Carole A. Feuerman Sculpture,
Second Edition
by Dena Merriam and Eleanor Munro
This revised monograph explores the work of Carole A. Feuerman, a leading American superrealist sculptor, featuring recent works and an extensive biography. Through dramatic photography by David Finn, it showcases nearly three decades of her sculptures in resin, bronze, cast marble, and other materials. From sensual reliefs to lifelike athletes and figures, Feuerman’s work explores reality, physicality, passion, and sensuality through extraordinary detail and realism.
FEBRUARY 2010 HARDCOVER Second Edition ISBN 13: 978-1-55595-323-2 ISBN: 1-55595-323-9 188 pages
Published by Hudson Hills Press
Carole A. Feuerman:
La Scultura Incontra la Realta
Moretti
by Gabriele Caioni
Carole A. Feuerman was born in Connecticut, but has always lived and worked in New York, between Soho and Chelsea. As noted by John Spike, she was a full generation younger than Duane Hanson and John de Andrea, but is one of the pioneers of life-sized and lifelike figure sculpture, down to the tiniest detail. In the early 70s, while Hanson was exhibiting his supermarket shoppers and other Pop Art satires, Feuerman was drawing album art for Alice Cooper and the Rolling Stones (Monkey Man). When she turned to sculpture in 1978, she took super-realism in a new direction: she got personal.
DECEMBER 2008 PAPERBACK Bilingual Edition ISBN 13: 978-8-85960-410-5 ISBN: 8-85960-410-9 146 pages
Published by Edizioni Polistampa
Carole A. Feuerman: Sculpture,
First Edition
by Dena Merriam
This monograph explores Carole A. Feuerman’s superrealist sculptures through dramatic photography by David Finn, capturing two decades of her work. Featuring pieces in resin, bronze, cast marble, and other materials, it highlights her evolution from erotic reliefs to lifelike figures, athletes, and abstract body fragments. Combining extraordinary realism with emotional depth, Feuerman’s work explores the nature of reality, human intimacy, physicality, and sensuality.
APRIL 1999 HARDCOVER First Edition ISBN 13: 978-1-55595-177-1 ISBN: 1-55595-177-5 167 pages
Published by Hudson Hills Press
Reborn Into the Water
The catalog Reborn Into the Water documents Carole Feuerman’s exhibition in Azerbaijan, bringing together a selection of the artist’s superrealist sculptures that explore the human figure in moments of immersion, rest, and transformation. Featuring swimmers, dancers, and older works, the publication highlights Feuerman’s mastery of anatomical detail and her ability to capture fleeting, intimate states of being.
Through high-quality reproductions and contextual texts, the catalog examines water as a recurring presence rather than a single motif—an element that frames themes of rebirth, vulnerability, endurance, and quiet strength. Designed as both a visual record and a reflective resource, the publication extends the experience of the exhibition while situating Feuerman’s work within a broader contemporary and international context.
Voice of the Body
This illustrated catalog accompanies Carole A. Feuerman’s landmark exhibition The Voice of the Body at Palazzo Bonaparte in Rome, curated by Demetrio Paparoni. Featuring over 100 works—including iconic sculptures, early illustrations, immersive installations, and never-before-seen pieces—this publication offers a deep exploration of Feuerman’s unique vision of the human form. With essays and commentary, it reveals how Feuerman transforms superrealism into emotional storytelling, giving voice to the body through skin, water, gesture, and gaze. A testament to her career and craft, the catalog captures an artist at the height of her powers. This catalog is published by Moebius.
A History of Western Art: From Prehistory to the Twentieth Century
by Antony Mason and John T. Spike
Published by Harry N. Abrams
Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960s
by David Rubin
Published by The MIT Press
Intimacy!: Bathing in Art
by Burkhard Leismann
Published by Wienand Verlag
A Trick of the Eye: Trompe L'Oeil Masterpieces
by Eckhard Hollmann
Published by Prestel Publishing
At Home with Art: How Art Lovers Live with and Care for Their Treasures
by Estelle Ellis
Published by Clarkson Potter
An American Odyssey 1945/1980 (Debating Modernism)
by Stephen C. Foster
Published by Queensborough Community College
Die Welt Als Bühne
by Ute Bopp Schumacher, Carole Feuerman, Stephanie Kaak, Gudrum Kemsa, Ferdidnand Ullrich, Veronika Veit
The Artful Home: Furniture, Sculpture & Objects
by Louis Sagar
Published by Guild Publishing
Fragments From The Biography of Nemesis
by Lois Marie Harrod
Published by WordTech Communications