Who created the sarcophagus statue of Oprah Winfrey?”
Article: London, Tuesday 14.10.08 TV chat queen Oprah gets a less than flattering tubby bronze statue cast in her honour Last updated at 09:58am on 01.02.08 She has famously battled with her weight – but according to this tribute to the queen of daytime television, it appears to be a battle lost. Controversial American sculptor Daniel Edwards latest work ‘The Oprah Sarcophagus’, is a very full-figured sculpture of Oprah Winfrey – and that’s where the likeness begins and ends. The work casts Miss Winfrey in bronze, as a nude, full-breasted woman with generous child-bearing hips. However, it bears little likeness to the billionaire media mogul, save for the head of curly hair that fans out around her. Instead, the artwork shares an uncanny likeness to the coffinette which held the body of Egyptian boy king Tutankhamun. Edwards, 42, says his piece pays homage to the closest thing America has to a living deity. The artist’s pieces typically address celebrity and popular culture in ways tha
The Oprah Sarcophagus, the latest work of sculptor Daniel Edwards, is bound to be his most talked-about media tweaking since the Monument to Pro-Life Britney Spears sculpture put him on most people’s maps. But perhaps this wasn’t exactly his plan. The hyper-curvaceous depiction of America’s unstoppable daytime-talk heavyweight engages in Edwards’ usual po-mo riff on figures different artistic traditions. If the Paris Hilton Autopsy sculpture played off of numerous classical depictions of the hunter goddess Artemis, then the Oprah Winfrey statue goes one step further, in actually presenting “the closest thing America has to a living deity” as precisely that. On the one hand, the obvious, explicit allusion is to Egyptian royal sarcophagi (some, perhaps lacking other points of reference, suggest an uncanny resemblance to King Tut ). But as usual Edwards works in a sculptural quotation that may escape many pop-saturated 21st century viewers: the prehistoric goddess figurine known as the Ve
Oprah Sarcophagus Statue by Daniel Edwards:New American Idol? By C. Antonio Romero SAN FRANCISCO, 31 JANUARY 2008—The Oprah Sarcophagus, the latest work of sculptor Daniel Edwards, is bound to be his most talked-about media tweaking since the Monument to Pro-Life Britney Spears sculpture put him on most people’s maps. But perhaps this wasn’t exactly his plan. The hyper-curvaceous depiction of America’s unstoppable daytime-talk heavyweight engages in Edwards’ usual po-mo riff on figures different artistic traditions. If the Paris Hilton Autopsy sculpture played off of numerous classical depictions of the hunter goddess Artemis, then the Oprah Winfrey statue goes one step further, in actually presenting “the closest thing America has to a living deity” as precisely that. On the one hand, the obvious, explicit allusion is to Egyptian royal sarcophagi (some, perhaps lacking other points of reference, suggest an uncanny resemblance to King Tut ). But as usual Edwards works in a sculptural q
The Oprah Sarcophagus, the latest work of sculptor Daniel Edwards, is bound to be his most talked-about media tweaking since the Monument to Pro-Life Britney Spears sculpture put him on most people’s maps. But perhaps this wasn’t exactly his plan. The hyper-curvaceous depiction of America’s unstoppable daytime-talk heavyweight engages in Edwards’ usual po-mo riff on figures different artistic traditions. If the Paris Hilton Autopsy sculpture played off of numerous classical depictions of the hunter goddess Artemis, then the Oprah Winfrey statue goes one step further, in actually presenting “the closest thing America has to a living deity” as precisely that. On the one hand, the obvious, explicit allusion is to Egyptian royal sarcophagi (some, perhaps lacking other points of reference, suggest an uncanny resemblance to King Tut ). But as usual Edwards works in a sculptural quotation that may escape many pop-saturated 21st century viewers: the prehistoric goddess figurine known as the Ve
