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)

FEUERMAN: Superrealist sculptures

This is the most comprehensive illustrated monograph on major American artist Carole A. Feuerman, a pioneer of superrealism in sculpture.

Carole Feuerman is best known for her figurative sculptures depicting swimmers and dancers. She is the only woman to sculpt in this style, creating lifelike works for both indoor and outdoor spaces

During the rise of postmodernism in the mid-seventies, Feuerman drew inspiration from historical imagery and styles while creating 3D illustrations for prominent magazines and tour publications featuring rock icons like the Rolling Stones and Alice Cooper. Her debut life casting in 1975, showcased on the cover of the National Lampoon, marked a significant artistic achievement.

Transitioning into the late 1970s, Feuerman delved into creating fragmented erotic compositions, adding complexity to her work. As a narrative artist, she infuses her sculptures with symbolic depth, inviting viewers into a dialogue. Informed by postmodernist thought, the 1980s saw Feuerman create lifelike, full-figure super-realistic sculptures, solidifying her artistic career and legacy.

Her passion for water and the ocean stems from her childhood at the beach. Feuerman describes the sensation of water droplets on her skin after swimming and the intricate patterns they formed as captivating. The beach became her sanctuary—a place of escape and tranquility. During a beach outing with her children, she encountered a swimmer with water droplets streaming down her face, radiating a sense of pride and accomplishment. This encounter catalyzed her first swimmer sculpture, Catalina (1978).

This lavishly illustrated book covers Feuerman’s five-decade career and features over 200 works.

Demetrio Paparoni is an art critic, curator, and essayist. In 1983, he founded the contemporary art magazine Tema Celeste and the publishing house bearing the same name.

Featured essay available here:

Carole A. Feuerman: Pop Superrealism by Demetrio Paparoni

Carole Feuerman: Swimmers

by John Yau & John Spike

Realist sculptor Carole Feuerman's human-figure sculptures express a refreshing perspective on the mundane but intensely personal activities of modern life. Her powers of observation and versatility are expressed through various materials that include marble, bronze, vinyl and painted resins; she also incorporates both ancient and contemporary methods in the creation of her works. In this new collection, Feuerman's treatment of the figure on paper is also explored for the first time. In an accompanying essay, John Yau describes Feuerman's exquisitely rendered subjects as "caught in a moment of transition that radiates an intense eroticism." Her figures evoke an inward life that invites our speculation while revealing a chasm between the figures and the viewer. Feuerman's sculpture and prints provide us with a fleeting glimpse into private and isolated environments--women stepping out of the shower, in the rain, or swimming--that suggest a meditative bliss.

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Carole A. Feuerman: 50 Years of Looking Good

Edited by John T. Spike

The most comprehensive monograph to date on major American artist Carole A. Feuerman, a pioneer of hyperrealism in sculpture lavishly illustrated and covering Feuerman’s entire career spanning five decades, featuring more than 200 works Carole A. Feuerman is celebrated as a pioneer and one of America’s major pioneers of Superrealism in sculpture. Born 1945, and educated in New York and Philadelphia, she began as an illustrator before turning to sculpture in the 1970s. Her work has been displayed in many group shows and solo exhibitions at private galleries and public museums, as well as at major art fairs, in America, Europe, and Asia. Over five decades, Feuerman has created visual manifestations of stories telling of strength, survival, and balance. Her subject matter is the human figure, most often a woman in an introspective moment of exuberant self-consciousness shaded by erotic lassitude. Feuerman’s works represent a female state of mind rather than an alluring body meant to attract the male gaze. They suggest that women look at themselves differently from men looking at them, that a woman is more innately creative than a man. This book is the most comprehensive survey of Feuerman’s oeuvre to date. Lavishly illustrated in color throughout, it demonstrates the variety of materials and media she uses and highlights the specific qualities of her figures.

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

Revised edition featuring recent work and an extensive new biography of one of the major figurative sculptors working in America today. Feuerman’s monumental Olympic Swimmer was featured in the Olympic Fine Arts exhibition at the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, the largest piece commissioned from an American artist. Carole A. Feuerman’s sculpture combines breathtaking super-realist technique with a humanist approach to her subjects. This revised monograph features David Finn’s dramatic photographs covering nearly three decades of her work, including many enlarged details and multiple views that provide a cinematic experience.

The work—in resin, cast marble, bronze, and other materials, often painted—ranges from early sensual reliefs through life-size sculptures of athletes and nudes. Her work is motivated by questions about the nature of reality, and her remarkable artistic skill leads the viewer to the same questions. Yet beyond the simulacrum of reality, Feuerman also manages to convey the feeling behind the intense physicality, the passion, and sensuality of mundane poses.

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.

Contents: Water, air, earth (by Viola Romoli) – Diary – Fires – Artworks – Bibliography and catalogues – Selected exhibition history – Artwork Index Testi in italiano e in inglese / Italian and English text Fotografie di / photos by Alessandro Moggi.

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

Carole A. Feuerman’s sculpture combines breathtaking superrealist technique with a humanist approach to her subjects. This first monograph on her work is filled with David Finn’s dramatic photographs covering two decades of her work, including many enlarged details and multiple views, providing a cinematic, almost three-dimensional experience. The work– in resin, cast marble, bronze, and other materials, often painted– ranges from early erotic reliefs through full-scale sculptures of athletes and nudes. Her women at their toilette are sculptural tours-de-force, yet their intimacy recalls Degas’ works on similar themes. Recent fragments and body mappings are experiments with abstraction, deconstruction, and conceptualism, at the same time that they explore the emotional life of their subjects, penetrating to their spirit.

All of Feuerman’s work reflects the two aspects of her vision. Her work is motivated by questions about the nature of reality, and her remarkable skill as an artist leads the viewer to the same questions. Yet beyond the simulacrum of reality, Feuerman also manages to convey the feeling behind the intense physicality, the passion and sensuality behind the seemingly mundane pose.

APRIL 1999 HARDCOVER First Edition ISBN 13: 978-1-55595-177-1 ISBN: 1-55595-177-5 167 pages

Published by Hudson Hills Press