Richard Deacon

"My father had an interesting camera--a Leica M2. He sometimes used it for taking family snaps, but mostly he took photographs, usually color slides, of the places that he or we were. It intrigued me greatly, his camera, and I envied it. There is perhaps something repressed or sublimated int his envy, an element of sexual jealously of the son for the father and for his command of the world."
Richard Deacon, excerpted from Richard Deacon: The Missing Part.

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RICHARD DEACON: THE MISSING PART
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865607935 | US $65.00
Pub Date: 8/31/2010
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RICHARD DEACON: THE SIZE OF IT
Essays by Javier Gonzalez de Durana, Raimund Stecker and Timo Valjakka.
RICHTER VERLAG
ISBN: 9783937572277 | US $50.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2006
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RICHARD DEACON: ABOUT THE SIZE OF IT
Edited by Niels Dietrich.
RICHTER VERLAG
ISBN: 9783937572314 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2006
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AC: RICHARD DEACON
Essay by Gerhard Kolberg. Foreword by Kasper Kànig.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783883757377 | US $25.00
Pub Date: 8/2/2003
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Richard Deacon

Richard Deacon: The Missing Part

Retrospective

Published by Walther König, Köln

This book surveys the work of Welsh artist Richard Deacon (born 1949), spanning the 1970s to the present. It includes never-before-published photographs of Deacon's earliest performances, along with many images from the artist's personal archive, and also looks closely at his sculptural practice, where biomorphic forms emerge as a dynamic blend of poetic metaphor and physical experience.

Richard Deacon: The Size Of It

Essays by Javier Gonzalez de Durana, Raimund Stecker and Timo Valjakka.
Published by Richter Verlag

The British artist Richard Deacon is one of the most significant and innovative sculptors of our time. His unusual vocabulary and forms, his amorphous volumes, intertwined serpentine lines, and dynamic configurations are, as he himself has agreed, full of the movement of the ocean. The concave becomes convex, the transparent opaque, and their transformations leave the viewer seeking in vain for a center. While Deacon initially worked with materials like stainless steel, copper, glass and plastic, in the late 1990s he began to make ceramic works finished in a wide variety of glazes. The Size of It includes those and more.

Richard Deacon: About The Size Of It

Edited by Niels Dietrich.
Published by Richter Verlag

Niels Dietrich and Richard Deacon shot these black-and-white photographs of Deacon's maquettes on the streets in London near Deacon's studio, or the streets in Cologne, near the ceramic workshop where Dietrich has moulded, glazed and fired Deacon's sculptures for years. In close-ups or in urban surroundings, the models allow readers new glimpses of Deacon's elementary, associative, and impulsive repertoire.

Ac: Richard Deacon

Made In Cologne

Essay by Gerhard Kolberg. Foreword by Kasper Kànig.
Published by Walther König, Köln

The monumental, and monumentally inventive, ceramic sculptures of Englishman Richard Deacon are exclusively made in Cologne, at the renowned studios of Niels Dietrich. Entwined, serpentine, rhythmic, biomorphic and sometimes convulsive, his ceramic works are uniquely presented here in a 16-page, 96-image photographic spread that gives a nearly frame-by-frame view of the artist at work.