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Peter Decamp Haines: Sculpture, 1975-2024
Hardcover
American Art - GeneralIndividual ArtistsSculpture & Installation
Publisher Price: $50.00
Publisher: Artist Book Foundation
Published: Sep 1 2025
Pages: 160
Weight: 2.65
Height: 0.70 Width: 10.30 Depth: 11.30
Language: English
The first major monograph on Peter DeCamp Haines, this title explores how the sculptor's interest in psychology and anthropology deeply informed his art.
This book is the first major monograph on the work of Peter DeCamp Haines (March 27, 1942-October 25, 2024), which builds on the evolution of Modernism as much as it harkens back to the Bronze Age. The clearest expression of this is a series of 1,000 elemental bronze artifacts he created over the course of nearly fifty years, to which he contributed yearly, ranging from palm-size pieces to colossal outdoor works. He called this output a personal archaeology, or an archaeology of the subconscious, referencing ancient tools, animal and human shapes, and the synchronicity of antique forms with the purely abstract.
Haines's interest in psychology and anthropology deeply informed his art. Working in a Modernist tradition, his career pursued a continuing exploration of the formal attributes of sculpture: form, scale, negative space, and composition. As Haines saw it, one of the satisfactions of sculpture is that ideas such as wholeness, beauty, and timelessness can be expressed without words and one of the critical elements of this wordless communication is negative space. Thus, the doorways, windows, and silhouettes of his sculptures can suggest an area larger than the sculpture itself.
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