Artist Deborah Masuoka's installation in downtown Council Bluffs introduces an ironic twist to Main and Pearl Street. Her large-scale sculptures take a typical prey animal, the rabbit, and transform it into a predator. The three rabbit heads, each one over 7 feet tall, invite viewers to consider preconceived notions of what certain images represent. Review the links below to learn more.
REQUEST A MASUOKA POSTER GO VIEW DEBORAH MASUOKA'S PHOTO GALLERY GO
The following links provide support references to the classroom curriculum provided on the back of the Art Education poster.
SCULPTURES OF RABBITS:
Albrecht Dürer's A Young Hare, 1502 GO
OTHER SCULPTURES OF RABBITS:
Barry Flanagan’s The Drummer, 1941 GO
Jeff Koons, Rabbit, 1986 GO
Deborah Masuoka, White Rabbit, 2007 GO
LITERARY AND MEDIA REFERENCES FOR RABBITS WITH HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS:
Numerous Brer Rabbit tales and of the tortoise and the hare (see “The Trickster Tricked”) GO
The Tale of Peter Rabbit eBook (includes illustrations) GO
Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland includes two famous rabbits:
Mad Hatter GO
White Rabbit GO
Bugs Bunny (includes animators’ drawings) GO
ARTISTS AND THE NATURAL WORLD:
Great Serpent Mound, Ohio, c. 100 BCE – CE 700 GO
Nazca Lines, Peru, c. 500 BCE – CE 500 (Click on the Spider, about 150 ft. long) GO
For another image of just the Spider GO
Louise Bourgeois, Maman , 2001 GO
For a webcam Bourgeois’ Maman in Canada GO
Deborah Butterfield, June, 2005 GO
EXPERIMENT WITH ART MAKING:
Page from a 13th Century sketchbook GO
ANIMALS WITH HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS:
Horus offering a libation, bronze statue, 22nd dynasty (ca. 800 BC); in the Louvre, Paris GO
Illustration from an Egyptian Book of the Dead, ca. 1275 BC, showing the jackal-headed god of the dead, Anubis, weighing the soul of the scribe, Ani. GO
Jade votive axe, Olmec 1200-400 BCE, British Museum, London. GO
Links to a variety of trickster tales GO
Harry Fonseca, 'Trickster' Coyote paintings (Click on "Studio Work" and then "Coyotes". Click on each image to enlarge.) GO
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