Object Details
- Luce Center Label
- Howard Newman often portrayed weapons and armor as extensions of the human body. Temptress is a malignant figure of a woman with a cracked, insectlike exoskeleton. She could be Eve in the Garden of Eden, offering fruit from the forbidden tree. Her grotesque armor and threatening features suggest a warning against the seductiveness of power in a modern, industrial world.
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Howard Newman, born Elizabeth, NJ 1943
- Date
- 1978
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation
- Medium
- bronze
- Dimensions
- 14 x 12 1/4 x 14 in. (35.5 x 31.1 x 35.5 cm.)
- Type
- Sculpture
