Riace Bronzes Recovered 200 Meters from Shore

Authors

Itzhak Fant, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Special Collections, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow

Files

Publication Date

11-1-2021

Keywords

artists' books, Baker & Whitehill

Disciplines

Book and Paper

Student Status

Undergraduate student

Year of Graduation

2022

Major

Painting

Faculty / Course

Claudia Bitran, Experiments in Drawing

Materials + Techniques

Ink on Sketchbook

Student Narrative

The Riace Bronzes are two six-feet tall full-sized Greek sculptures which were recovered off the southern coast of Italy in the 1970's. In this book, their discovery is reimagined when a typical day of fishing is transformed into a romantic encounter. The bronze figure, who has spent two thousand years at sea, is a parallel figure to the fishermen, whose lives and work are the true subject of the book.

Photo Credit

Hannah Nigro, PH 2023

Recommended Citation

Fant, Itzhak; Collections, Special; and Library, Fleet, "Riace Bronzes Recovered 200 Meters from Shore" (2021). 8th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2022. 8.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/bookcontest8th2022/8