Daniel Edwards

This is an accepted version of this page Daniel Edwards (born 1965 in La Porte, Indiana) is an American contemporary artist whose pieces address celebrity and popular culture in ways that have often stirred controversy.

He includes the idea of promotion and associative fame in his own marketing of his art.

His works include a sculpture of the disembodied head of Ted Williams, a life-sized statue of Britney Spears giving birth while nude on her hands and knees on a bearskin rug,[1] a bust of Senator Hillary Clinton,[2] and a 25-foot (7.6 m) bust of Fidel Castro.

Edwards titled the piece Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston, explaining that it symbolized Spears' decision to put childbirth ahead of her career.

Edwards conceded, however, that he wouldn't march with either anti-abortion or abortion rights advocates.

[2] On 28 August 2006, Edwards unveiled a sculpture titled Suri's bronzed baby poop, purported to be the actual first bowel movement of the baby of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.

The sculpture was to be auctioned on eBay, and Edwards was commissioned to produce a limited-edition plaster replica.

[5] A sculpture of Prince Harry depicting him dead, in military uniform, his head resting upon a Bible with a locket of his mother's clasped in his hands and with a vulture standing by his feet.

Edwards suggests that the sculpture shows how Prince Harry "must have died the day they told him he couldn't serve" (in Iraq).

[6][7] Edwards created a half-scale model depicting Oprah's Sarcophagus at Gardenfresh Gallery in Chicago at In April 2008.

The golden bronze casket lid bears an unclothed full-figure rendering of the media mogul with vertical stripes.

[8] In 2009, Edwards released String Of Babies depicting mother of eight Nadya Suleman aka Octomom as an octopus embracing the world's only surviving set of octuplets.

[9] On August 9, 2009, Edwards unveiled his latest piece, a nude statue of Angelina Jolie breastfeeding twins, one African and one not.

[10] On August 9, 2011, pictures surfaced of a new statue Edwards had created depicting actress/singer Selena Gomez with her boyfriend singer, Justin Bieber conjoined by the torso, nude, with only coverings on their private parts.

Justin was given the Canadian maple leaf as a covering and Selena, the Texas star.

[12] In 2006, feature filmmaker A.D. Calvo produced a series of short documentaries on Edwards and his work.

His compilation was entitled La Danse Macabre: Portrait of a Serial Sculptor.

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