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| Introduction by Kasper König, Brigitte Franzen. Been to enough biennials? Skulptur Projekte Münster only happens every 10 years. This, its fourth iteration (following 1977, 1987 and 1997), invites artists from all over the world--many of whom are returning to the city and the event--to create new site-specific works. Thus Michael Asher brings back his trailer and parks in sites he first sussed out in 1977, continuing to explore the conflicts between rigid form and mobile space, and to document the dramatic transformation of the urban environment over four decades. Guy Ben-Ner equips bicycles with screens and places them around the city; by pedaling, participants control the speed and direction of a film of the artist doing the same. Guillaume Bijl mocks up an archaeological site 25 feet square and 18 feet deep, whose steep walls imitate layers of soil. Visitors climb a grassy hill to peer into the pit from a balustrade; in the pit, a 14-foot, shingle-roofed spire topped by a weathercock preens. This extensive book inspired by and documenting the festival opens on 35 sections between 4 and 16 pages long, each designed by the artist and illuminating his or her work in text and images. Its second half comes in the form of a glossary of more than 100 key concepts linked to the subject of art in public spaces; artists, art historians, philosophers, urbanists, architects, sociologists and other writers weighing in with definitions from their respective disciplinary perspectives. Participants include Francis Alÿs, Isa Genzken, Mike Kelley, Rosemarie Trockel, Bruce Nauman, Martha Rosler and Pae White. PUBLISHED BY: Walther Kˆnig FORMAT: Paperback, 7.25 x 10.25 in. / 470 pgs / 315 color / 190 b&w. ISBN: 9783865602343 ISBN10: 3865602347 PUBLICATION DATE: 07/01/2007 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Text by Brigitte Franzen, Kasper König, Carina Plath. In late 2006, the Münster Art Academy initiated a discussion on public sculpture with 12 of the 35 artists featured in Skulptur Projekte Münster 07. In a series of interviews, Guy Ben-Ner, Martin Boyce, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Marko Lehanka, Eva Meyer and Eran Schaerf, Deimantas Narkevicus, Susan Philipsz, Andreas Siekmann, Silke Wagner, Clemens von Wedemeyer and Annette Wehrmann all talk about their work, their questions regarding public and urban space and their specific approaches to the exhibition. These insightful conversations are complemented by a discussion with the exhibition curators, Brigitte Franzen, Kasper König and Carina Plath. PUBLISHED BY: Walther Kˆnig FORMAT: Paperback, 3.25 x 10.25 in. / 192 pgs / 98 b&w. ISBN: 9783865602091 ISBN10: 3865602096 PUBLICATION DATE: 07/01/2007 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| By Frank Frangenberg. This pocket-sized guide to Skulptur Projekte Münster 07 offers a complete tour of the exhibition, with the insightful comments of the rising German critic Frank Frangenberg printed alongside detailed site maps and important topographical information. Bound with a city map folder, is an essential handbook for anyone who plans to attend the show. PUBLISHED BY: Walther Kˆnig FORMAT: Paperback, 4.25 x 7.25 in. / 100 pgs / 50 color. ISBN: 9783865602817 ISBN10: 3865602819 PUBLICATION DATE: 07/01/2007 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Introduction by Olga Viso. Text by Anne Ellegood, Johanna Burton. This thematic selection of recent work from nine established and emerging international sculptors--the eldest born in 1947 and the youngest in 1974--collects the ways they are giving shape to the fleeting, ephemeral, theoretical and difficult-to-explain. From Charles Long's delicate, poetic and personal debris assemblages to Björn Dahlem's quirky, elegant models of black holes and Andrea Cohen's styrofoam and packing-peanut networks, their works are inspired by and address the history of their medium, as they explore how it can continue to challenge and expand our ways of seeing. The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas is not only a look at current trends, but a tool in placing this new work within the history of Modern sculpture. It notes responses to the formal and material concerns of groundbreaking twentieth-century experiments such as Cubist collage, Dada and Fluxus, from 1960s California's "junk" sculptures to Robert Rauschenberg's postmodern Combines. Includes work from Isa Genzken, Mark Handforth, Rachel Harrison, Evan Holloway, Mindy Shapero, Franz West, as well as Cohen, Dahlem and Long. PUBLISHED BY: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden FORMAT: Hardcover, 8 x 10.5 in. / 128 pgs / 95 color / 5 b&w. ISBN: 9780978906306 ISBN10: 0978906306 PUBLICATION DATE: 01/01/2007 AVAILABILITY: Temporarily out of stock. Check your local bookstore or museum shop for copies. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Text by Kynaston McShine, Lynne Cooke, John Rajchman, Benjamin Buchloh. The art of Richard Serra is internationally admired for its powerful material qualities and its searching exploration of the relationship between the work, the viewer and the site. Indeed, since his emergence in the mid-1960s, Serra is widely understood to have radicalized and extended the very definition of sculpture. Quite simply the most complete view to date of the work of one of the most important artists of the last half-century, Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years offers a detailed visual presentation and documentation of 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 Museum of Modern Art's 2007 retrospective, for which this volume was produced. The book contains major scholarly essays on the artist's work by Benjamin Buchloh, Lynne Cooke and John Rajchman, as well as an interview with the artist by Kynaston McShine, the Museum's Chief Curator at Large. PUBLISHED BY: The Museum of Modern Art, New York FORMAT: Clothbound, 10.5 x 10 in. / 500 pgs / 450 duotone. ISBN: 9780870707124 ISBN10: 0870707124 PUBLICATION DATE: 06/01/2007 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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Volume I 1946-1997 Edited by Nicola Del Roscio. Essay by Arthur Danto.Cy Twombley is one of the most prominent artists of our time. Although primarily known for his paintings and drawings, which have been exhibited widely throughout the world, he has been engaged in sculture making from the outset of his career. This volume presents 117 sculptures and 30 casts spanning the years 1946 to 1997, many of which have never been seen before. It represents the entirety of Twombley's sculptural output, which includes bronzes as well as pieces made of wood, plaster and other materials, and will be invaluable to scholars and students of the artist. Twombley's sculpture has come to the attention of the public recently thanks to an exhibition that travelled to the Menil Collection in Houston during 2000. Also included is an essay by the philosopher and art critic Arthur Danto, as well as comprehensive biographic, exhibition, and bibliographic information. PUBLISHED BY: Schirmer/Mosel FORMAT: Hardcover, 10 x 13.75 in. / 352 pgs / 179 color / 7 b&w / 2 duotone. ISBN: 9783888148750 ISBN10: 3888148758 PUBLICATION DATE: 10/02/2001 AVAILABILITY: Temporarily out of stock. Check your local bookstore or museum shop for copies. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Essays by Carmen Gim»nez, Rosalind E. Krauss, David Anfam, Michael Brenson and Paul Hayes Tucker. Deemed the "foremost sculptor of his generation" by art critic Clement Greenberg, David Smith, who lived from 1906 to 1965, is about to be celebrated in his first retrospective since 1969--to be held at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, from February through May of 2006. David Smith: A Centennial features new photographs of nearly every selected sculpture--110 pieces dating from 1932 to 1965, including important examples from each period, many rarely seen in public. Essays from writers including David Anfam, Michael Brenson, Rosalind Krauss and Paul Hayes Tucker tackle key areas, such as Smith's relationship to the painters of the New York School, the dual development of his family life and series sculpture through the 1950s and 60s, and his use of the landscape outside his studio in formulating his late works. Perhaps most importantly, David Smith: A Centennial also features the most comprehensive research on Smith yet published, including a newly compiled and extended bibliography; a comprehensive exhibition history; a chronology; and an illustrated checklist tracking provenance, exhibition history, and bibliographic references for each featured sculpture, finally bringing scholarship on Smith to the level of that on other important American artists of his generation, such as Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. David Smith: A Centennial considers Smith's oeuvre as a totality, and offers readers the chance to understand the complexity of his aesthetic concerns as well as his impact on the course of American sculpture, and American art at large. PUBLISHED BY: Guggenheim Museum FORMAT: Hardcover, 9.5 x 10.75 in. / 460 pgs / 300 color. ISBN: 9780892073436 ISBN10: 0892073438 PUBLICATION DATE: 03/01/2006 AVAILABILITY: Out of Print. Check the Stores tab to locate a shop that may have copies. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Edited by Christiane Schneider. Essays by Susanna Greeves and Christiane Schneider. The newly founded gallery Haunch of Venison inaugurates its opening with an exhibition by internationally acclaimed sculptor Rachel Whiteread. The exhibition and accompanying publication feature Whiteread's newest work, Untitled (Domestic), a massive sculpture cast from the fire escape staircases of Haunch of Venison's premises--a 3-storey building constructed in the late 18th century that was originally the home of Admiral Lord Nelson. Reincarnating the staircase in its negative form, the imposing white sculpture invokes the building's past while reflecting the artist's interest in the formal and purely architectural qualities of sculpture. This inaugural publication features installation views of the exhibition, including additional work dating from 1995 to the present day, as well as two amply illustrated essays and a complete bibliography. The first text considers Whiteread's immense public commissions in relation to their environment; the second outlines the history and techniques involved in creating the cast staircase sculptures. PUBLISHED BY: Haunch of Venison FORMAT: Hardcover, 8.5 x 10.75 in. / 64 pgs / 17 color / 6 b&w. ISBN: 9780954067113 ISBN10: 0954067118 PUBLICATION DATE: 11/02/2003 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Essays by Lisa Dennison, Craig Houser, Beatriz Colomina, A.M. Homes and Molly Nesbit. New Lower Price Rachel Whiteread creates spare, poetic sculptures that challenge perceptions of the commonplace. Working from everyday domestic items, she casts--in rubber, concrete, plaster and polyester resin--the negative spaces inside closets and underneath beds, sinks, bathtubs and chairs. In one of her most personal projects, the artist was commissioned by Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin to make two large-scale casts from distinct spaces in a London building that she recently purchases as her home and studio. Although the building has a history as both a synagogue and a factory, it is a product of austere postwar architecture, lacking many of the traditional embellishments associated with such structures. This fully illustrated volume documents Whiteread's process as she creates casts from this religious-cum-industrial -cum-personal space, which blurs boundaries between the spiritual and secular, as well as the public and private. PUBLISHED BY: Guggenheim Museum FORMAT: Hardcover, 8.25 x 9.25 in. / 170 pgs / 75 color. ISBN: 9780892072873 ISBN10: 0892072873 PUBLICATION DATE: 12/02/2003 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Edited by Eckhard Schneider. Essays by Juhani Pallasmaa, Mario Codognato, Richard Cork and Richard Noble. The British installation artist Rachel Whiteread does deliberately what the lava of Pompeii did naturally. She casts whole rooms or architectural details to create a sculptural reversal, places and objects which both literally and figuratively leave an impression and occupy space firmly even in their immateriality. The four series presented here on the theme of the "house" transform the functional qualities of surrounding architecture into aura-filled works of art. They are comprised of early and new works, providing a useful overview of this aspect of Whiteread's notable career. Four essays by well-known critics illuminate the principles behind her work to go along with over 50 color illustrations. PUBLISHED BY: Kunsthaus Bregenz FORMAT: Paperback, 9 x 10.5 in. / 112 pgs / 60 color. ISBN: 9783883759357 ISBN10: 388375935X PUBLICATION DATE: 08/15/2005 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Essay by Cornelia Butler. West Coast artist Eric Wesley was born in 1973 in Los Angeles. His work, which can take the form of sculpture, painting, drawing, architectural model or public artwork proposal, often uses decrepit materials and conveys a humorous take on the world and his own identity within it. For the 2004 Whitney Biennial, he created scale sets for a faux reality show; his 2000 kinetic sculpture "Kicking Ass" was a mechanized donkey that kicked holes in the gallery wall behind it. This small monograph is the first publication dedicated solely to the artist's work, and is published on the occasion of his 2006 exhibition as part of the MOCA Focus series. PUBLISHED BY: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles FORMAT: Paperback, 8 x 10 in. / 60 pgs / 40 color. ISBN: 9780914357971 ISBN10: 0914357972 PUBLICATION DATE: 08/15/2006 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Artwork by Stephen Hendee. Edited by David Moos. Text by Tim Griffin, Robert Phillip. One of the largest works that Stephen Hendee has ever constructed, Ascension is a 40-foot-high colossus that the viewer may walk up, through, and around, entering the space of the sculpture and exploring its multiple light-filled facets. This is also the first comprehensive publication to survey all of the installations and ambitious constructed environments for which Hendee has become internationally recognized. Innovative works that exist between the disciplines of sculpture and architecture, transforming spaces into complex realms that trigger associations with science-fiction dream worlds, Hendee's glowing, geometric sculptures have been likened to the virtual realms of cyberspace, crystallography, and imaginary architecture. PUBLISHED BY: Birmingham Museum of Art FORMAT: Paperback, 8.25 x 10 in. / 104 pgs / 50 color. ISBN: 9780931394508 ISBN10: 0931394503 PUBLICATION DATE: 04/02/2003 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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Catalogue Raisonne Text by Elisabeth Sussman.Robert Gober's sculptural works trigger disquieting thoughts and feelings about the most commonplace aspects of our daily lives. Gober first came to public attention in the mid-80s with his simple variations on the domestic sink, which were deprived of faucets and drains and thus rendered nonfunctional--highlighting, among other things, a neurotic frustration particular to rituals of cleansing. Since then Gober's work has rarely strayed from the recreation of such familiar objects as drains, doors, children's furniture and the human body. In his hands, these routine props of existence--always crafted meticulously by the artist--suggest larger themes around childhood, domesticity, sexuality, victimization and religion. At 544 pages, Robert Gober: Sculptures 1979-2007 is a monumental catalogue raisonne of sculptures and installations. It includes approximately 250 works, all of which are reproduced in large format. Comprehensive descriptions are complemented by the artist's own commentary on individual works, as well as technical information on their manufacture. PUBLISHED BY: Steidl/Schaulager, Basel FORMAT: Hardcover, 12 x 9 in. / 544 pgs / 500 color. ISBN: 9783865214737 ISBN10: 3865214738 PUBLICATION DATE: 09/01/2007 AVAILABILITY: Temporarily out of stock. Check your local bookstore or museum shop for copies. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Essay by Brenda Richardson. This publication catalogues and explores the latest sculptural installation by Robert Gober, one of contemporary art's most highly regarded figures and one of our best storytellers. Unlike anything that has been seen before, this new work explores questions of sexuality, religion, relationships, nature, and memory, all informed by the current political climate. Loosely following the floor plan of a church, the installation brings together many of Gober's known sculptural motifs and introduces new ones as he continues into uncharted artistic territory. The first of the two volumes includes a comprehensive essay by Brenda Richardson written over the course of the two years of the installation's development. Richardson spent hours in the studio in conversation with Gober, and her Lexicon provides an unprecedented glimpse at the working process and multiple layers of meaning in Gober's complex work. The lavishly illustrated second volume reproduces 50 full-color photographs of the completed work. PUBLISHED BY: Steidl/Matthew Marks Gallery FORMAT: Slipcased, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 185 pgs / 50 color. ISBN: 9783865211217 ISBN10: 3865211216 PUBLICATION DATE: 08/15/2005 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Artwork by Robert Gober. Text by Dave Hickey. With wit and insight, critic Hickey walks us through Gober's disturbing site-specific installation at Dia. PUBLISHED BY: Dia Art Foundation FORMAT: Hardcover, 7 x 10 in. / 64 pgs / 18 color / 2 b&w. ISBN: 9780944521250 ISBN10: 0944521258 PUBLICATION DATE: 08/02/1993 AVAILABILITY: Out of Print. Check the Stores tab to locate a shop that may have copies. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Text by W.J.T. Mitchell, Susan Stewart, Anthony Vidler. Interview by Ralph Rugoff, Jacky Klein. Over the past 25 years, Antony Gormley, perhaps Britain's best-known living sculptor, has revitalized the human image in sculpture. He won the 1994 Turner Prize and has had solo exhibitions at the Whitechapel, Tate, and Hayward galleries, White Cube and The British Museum, and internationally at the Corcoran Gallery, Documenta and the Venice Biennale. His radical investigations of the body as a place of memory and transformation use his own corpus as subject, tool and material. Conflating figure and ground, inside and outside, the physical and the psychological, Gormley explores complex relationships between the city, its architecture and its people. This richly illustrated catalogue is filled with new, never-before-seen sculptural works--a series of figures in light-infused webs of steel, and the monumental steel-block "Space Station," 20 feet high. Photographer Gautier Deblonde also chronicles a major new public project, "Event Horizon," which sites some 30 sculptures on buildings across central London, dramatically altering the city skyline. An in-depth interview with Gormley explores the development of his new work, as well as his relationship to the artists who have inspired him and to his contemporaries in the field of figurative sculpture. PUBLISHED BY: Hayward Gallery Publishing FORMAT: Hardcover, 8 x 11 in. / 160 pgs / illustrated throughout ISBN: 9781853322587 ISBN10: 185332258X PUBLICATION DATE: 07/01/2007 AVAILABILITY: Temporarily out of stock. Check your local bookstore or museum shop for copies. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Edited by Michael Mack. Text by Richard Noble. Over the past 20 years, the sculptor Antony Gormley has created some of the most memorable and controversial public art installations in Britain, the United States, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Mexico, Australia and China. His work has focused on the human figure and each piece is either cast directly from his own body or one of his volunteer models. He is best known for large-scale landscape interventions, such as Another Place, where 100 cast-iron figures are installed facing the horizon on the coastal mud-flats at Cuxhaven, Germany; The Angel of the North, commissioned by the city of Gateshead in England; and Inside Australia, where 51 sculptures were cast from the inhabitants of Menzies in western Australia, and set in 10 square kilometers of a dried lake. Gormley has also created many collaborative works in major public museum sites, such as the 190,000 figures in Asian Field and the 250 Domain sculptures made of stainless-steel bars commissioned by the Baltic art center in Gateshead, England. This catalogue raisonne is the definitive guide to Gormley's career. An extensive, large-format publication, it is the first major retrospective of his most significant works. Each chapter considers one of 25 projects in a comprehensive visual essay and a text written by the artist, explaining the genesis, creation, and installation of the work. An extended illustrated essay by the renowned political philosopher and writer Richard Noble will consider the development of Gormley's work, its place in the context of late twentieth-century sculpture, and the problematic use of his own body as a model for sculptural forms, as well as offering the first analysis of the political nature of his collaborative works. PUBLISHED BY: SteidlMACK FORMAT: Clothbound, 9.75 x 11.75 in. / 559 pgs / illustrated throughout. ISBN: 9783865210296 ISBN10: 3865210295 PUBLICATION DATE: 07/01/2007 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Edited by Heiner Bastian. Essays by Eugen Blume and Susanna Greeves. Visitors to the 2001 Venice Biennale were highly impressed with the sculpture Boy--a child who stood five meters high--by the London-based artist Ron Mueck. Harald Szeemann called the sculpture "the sphinx of the exhibition," and it soon became its landmark. The monumental, crouching figure of a youth makes a vulnerable, defensive impression and yet, its watchful eye seems to miss nothing. Mueck's human figures are always technically perfect, absolutely realistic, deliberately undersized or oversized. He first models them in clay and then takes a hollow cast which he fills with silicone or fiberglass. The finished sculptures show delicate networks of veins, fine hairs; they even seem to breathe. Their perfection is always in the service of content, however: Viewers are touched and set thinking by the emotional quality of figures like Pregnant Woman or Dead Dad--created by the artist after the death of his father. With great autonomous presence, exhibiting human features yet completely artificial, Mueck's artworks refer to fundamental questions and allow a wealth of associations. PUBLISHED BY: Hatje Cantz Publishers FORMAT: Hardcover, 8.5 x 11 in. / 80 pgs / 40 color ISBN: 9783775713375 ISBN10: 3775713379 PUBLICATION DATE: 12/02/2003 AVAILABILITY: Out of Print. Check the Stores tab to locate a shop that may have copies. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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Thinking the Line Edited by Nadja Peter Weibel. Essays by Bruno Bosteels, Kaira Marie Caba“as, Hannah Feldman, Julieta Gonzlez and Juan Carlos Ledezma. Texts by Lourdes Blanco, Maria Luz Crdenas, Hanni Ossott, Maria Fernanda Palacios, Luis P»rez Oramas and Marta Traba.Venezuelan sculptor Gertrud Luise Goldschmidt (1912-1994), who worked under the pseudonym Gego, was one of the most important representatives of Latin American Geometric Abstractionism. Born in Germany, Goldschmidt became an architect and later immigrated to Caracas in 1939, where she radically altered the nature of modernist sculpture, countering the deductive logic of 1960s abstraction with a fluid conceptualism, reconfiguring "content-less" art into an open-ended process of "thinking the line." The most comprehensive examination of Gego's art published in English to date, this monograph contains deep analyses by scholars from a range of disciplines as well as previously untranslated historical texts, offering new perspectives on Gego's critical relationships to Venezuelan urbanism and kineticism, the New York avant-garde, and the European modernist traditions of Bauhaus and Russian Constructivism. Includes an illustrated chronology and an extensive plate section featuring three decades of sculpture and drawings. PUBLISHED BY: Hatje Cantz Publishers FORMAT: Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 240 pgs / 62 color and 111 b&w. ISBN: 9783775717878 ISBN10: 3775717870 PUBLICATION DATE: 08/15/2006 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Edited by Michael Mack. Foreword by Richard Rogers. Trafalgar Square is full of military statues, and one ghostly empty pedestal that's been waiting, undefended, for more than 150 years. Of late, the fourth plinth isn't so lonely: it's become the most significant public art space in the United Kingdom. Marc Quinn recently unveiled the sculpture that will grace it for the next 18 months to resounding tabloid disgust and critical acclaim. Allison Lapper Pregnant is a 13-ton, 12-foot high model of the disabled artist Allison Lapper eight months along. She has said, "I regard it as a modern tribute to femininity, disability, and motherhood. It is so rare to see disability in everyday life, let along naked, pregnant, and proud. The sculpture makes the ultimate statement about disability, that it can be as beautiful and valid a form of being as any other." Fourth Plinth traces Quinn's creative process, the piece's creation, and public responses, including calls to leave it in the square permanently. PUBLISHED BY: SteidlMack FORMAT: Paperback, 8.75 x 10.75 in. / 48 pgs / 20 color / 10 b&w. ISBN: 9783865212405 ISBN10: 3865212409 PUBLICATION DATE: 04/01/2006 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Contributions by Vija Celmins. Text by Matthew Higgs. For over 40 years Ken Price has been heavily invested in the creation and innovation of form and color in ceramic sculpture. His adventurous work has pushed the boundaries of structure and glazing, creating remarkably lively shapes and color patterns and cementing his reputation as one of the most influential artists working in the medium today. This volume highlights Price's newest work as well as a retrospective sampling from the artist's long career in sculpture and drawing. Price's recent sensuously shaped fetish-like objects are meticulously painted and sanded to create rich, patterned skins with jewel-like surfaces. His brilliantly-colored drawings depict an often fantastic realm of rushing lava, raging seas and roaming creatures. A very important facet of Price's oeuvre, the drawings highlight themes that run throughout his work, and show Price to be a fine and original draftsman. In addition to the 60 color reproductions included here, fellow Los Angeles artist Vija Celmins contributes an interview with Price, further investigating his motivations and processes, contextualized in the California art community he helped to create. PUBLISHED BY: Steidl/Matthew Marks Gallery FORMAT: Hardcover, 9.25 x 11 in. / 148 pgs / 60 color. ISBN: 9783865213150 ISBN10: 3865213154 PUBLICATION DATE: 11/15/2006 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Interview by John Wood. Text by Tony Cragg, Christoph Brockhaus, Robert Kudielka, Christian Schneegass. "The future of sculpture has only just begun. Its potential is greater now than ever before, and its possibilities are just starting. Its language and its forms are just beginning to evolve." So says Tony Cragg, a believer not just in sculpture, but in freestanding, made-from-scratch abstraction. Cragg refuses to accept the domination of installation and the ready-made. His dedication to the form as he works in it--to its complexities, to its ability to interrogate the world and heighten our sensitivity--and his consistent espousal of that dedication, have given him an intriguing and unusual role in contemporary art. Cragg is a promoter of his medium in an age of anxiety about medium-based definitions, an age of crossover. There are plenty of words here, in an interview and three essays, but it's the sketches, watercolors, installation views, studio photographs and the sculptures themselves that make up the bulk of this new volume. PUBLISHED BY: Walther Konig FORMAT: Hardcover, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 288 pgs / 408 color. ISBN: 9783865601308 ISBN10: 3865601308 PUBLICATION DATE: 03/01/2007 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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