Brice Marden: Cold Mountain Studies Peter Blum Editions The surfaces of the sculptures

The surfaces of the sculptures mimic the gloss of vinyl inflatables—forms with which Koons has worked since his early career—while their subject embodies both a current in Western popular culture and the Eastern figure of the “guardian god

They have a purity before you smoke them

heavy metal

which came into use during the Renaissance

Each disk elaborates on the imprint—one of which is in gold—of one of the Italian sculptor’s fingertips

Brice Marden: Cold Mountain Studies Peter Blum Editions The surfaces of the sculpturesThis book documents and reproduces Cold Mountain Studies, a sketchbook of thirty five line drawings produced by Brice Marden between March 1988 and November 1990. The drawingsmost of which are in black ink, with a few also including a gouache componentwere made in New York, London, Berlin, Hydra, and St. Barthlmy, and represent a key creative experiment en route to the artists acclaimed Cold Mountain paintings of the same period. Marden credited the