Richard Serra's Tilted Arc
Author : Clara Weyergraf-Serra
Publisher : Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 12,11 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Art and state
ISBN : 9789070149246
Author : Clara Weyergraf-Serra
Publisher : Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 12,11 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Art and state
ISBN : 9789070149246
Author : Sherrill Jordan
Publisher : Americans for the Arts Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,84 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Kynaston McShine
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 14,55 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780870707124
"This book offers a detailed presentation of Richard Serra's entire career, from his early experiments with materials like rubber, neon, and lead to the environmentally scaled steel works of recent years, including three monumental new sculptures created for the exhibition that this book accompanies."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Richard Serra
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 35,59 MB
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300235968
“The rhythm of the body moving through space has been the motivating source of most of my work.”—Richard Serra Drawn from talks between celebrated artist Richard Serra and acclaimed art historian Hal Foster held over a fifteen-year period, this volume offers revelations into Serra’s prolific six-decade career and the ideas that have informed his working practice. Conversations about Sculpture is both an intimate look at Serra’s life and work, with candid reflections on personal moments of discovery, and a provocative examination of sculptural form from antiquity to today. Serra and Foster explore such subjects as the artist’s work in steel mills as a young man; the impact of music, dance, and architecture on his art; the importance of materiality and site specificity to his aesthetic; the controversies and contradictions his work has faced; and his belief in sculpture as experience. They also discuss sources of inspiration—from Donatello and Brancusi to Japanese gardens and Machu Picchu—revealing a history of sculpture across time and culture through the eyes of one of the medium’s most brilliant figures. Introduced with an insightful preface by Foster, this probing dialogue is beautifully illustrated with duotone images that bring to life both Serra's work and his key commitments.
Author : Harriet Senie
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 30,99 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780816637867
Author : Clara Weyergraf-Serra
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 22,95 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262231558
These documents from the public hearing and the court proceedings are an essential primary source for scholars of art and law, providing a complete and moving record of censorship in the arts.
Author : Harriet Senie
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,98 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Public sculpture
ISBN : 9781452905273
Author : Harriet Senie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,21 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN :
In the twentieth century, public sculpture has changed almost beyond recognition. Works inspired by classical and Renaissance traditions - imposing equestrian monuments and triumphal arches - have been replaced by works such as Claes Oldenburg's Clothespin and Christo's Running Fence. This break from tradition has led to radically different approaches to public sculpture - but not without bitter controversy within both the art community and the general public. Contemporary Public Sculpture offers the first comprehensive look at this highly diverse and often controversial branch of modern art. Beginning with the revival of public sculpture in the 1960s, with the work of Picasso, Calder, Moore, Nevelson, and others, Senie traces the developments that defined a new civic art: one which substituted the artist's fame for public content and sparked debates about cost, the role of government, and the place of public art in a democratic society. She shows how the growing irrelevance of traditional memorials resulted in a new approach to the genre defined by Maya Lin's Vietnam Veteran's Memorial, which set out to "heal a nation" rather than glorify a military event by honoring victims rather than heroes; and how dissatisfaction with modern "glass box" architecture and its surrounding barren urban spaces led architectural firms like Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill to use art to enliven both. Senie discusses how the earthworks of Robert Smithson and others inspired public sculpture that brought various landscape elements into urban sites; and she explores works by George Sugarman and Scott Burton that combine sculpture and furniture, changing the very idea of public art by creating a stage for publiclife. Finally, she examines the controversies that arise when citizens (including the press and politicians) confront publicly funded work - such as Joel Shapiro's "Headless Gumby" or Serra's Tilted Arc - that defies their sense of what public sculpture should be. Illustrated with over one hundred halftones, this overview of contemporary public sculpture provides a clear understanding of why it is there, why it looks the way it does, and what is really at stake in the continuing public art controversy.
Author : Miwon Kwon
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 33,2 MB
Release : 2004-02-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262612029
A critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960s. Site-specific art emerged in the late 1960s in reaction to the growing commodification of art and the prevailing ideals of art's autonomy and universality. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, as site-specific art intersected with land art, process art, performance art, conceptual art, installation art, institutional critique, community-based art, and public art, its creators insisted on the inseparability of the work and its context. In recent years, however, the presumption of unrepeatability and immobility encapsulated in Richard Serra's famous dictum "to remove the work is to destroy the work" is being challenged by new models of site specificity and changes in institutional and market forces. One Place after Another offers a critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960s and a theoretical framework for examining the rhetoric of aesthetic vanguardism and political progressivism associated with its many permutations. Informed by urban theory, postmodernist criticism in art and architecture, and debates concerning identity politics and the public sphere, the book addresses the siting of art as more than an artistic problem. It examines site specificity as a complex cipher of the unstable relationship between location and identity in the era of late capitalism. The book addresses the work of, among others, John Ahearn, Mark Dion, Andrea Fraser, Donald Judd, Renee Green, Suzanne Lacy, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Richard Serra, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, and Fred Wilson.
Author : Michael Kammen
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 46,12 MB
Release : 2009-04-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0307548775
In this lively narrative, award-winning author Michael Kammen presents a fascinating analysis of cutting-edge art and artists and their unique ability to both delight and provoke us. He illuminates America’s obsession with public memorials and the changing role of art and museums in our society. From Thomas Eakins’s 1875 masterpiece The Gross Clinic, (considered “too big, bold, and gory” when first exhibited) to the bitter disputes about Maya Lin’s Vietnam War Memorial, this is an eye-opening account of American art and the battles and controversies that it has ignited.