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and basketball—are one of the artist’s recurrent subjects

cloaked in shadow or suddenly illuminated by a shaft of daylight

to tell the story of a global obsession with art

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Thomas Schütte: Major Sculpture Bone China and basketball—are one of theThis book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Thomas Schtte: Major Sculpture at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York. Featuring six sculptures from the Frauen (Women) series and the related work Torso (2005), it was the largest presentation in the United States to date of this historic body of work. Among Schttes most ambitious and provocative series, Frauen is a sequence of eighteen monumental works made between 1998 and 2006. Cast in