Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty YearsThe 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. |
Contents
FOREWORD | 7 |
Lowry | 8 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 9 |
Kynaston McShine | 11 |
A Conversation about Work with Richard Serra Kynaston McShine | 15 |
Sculpture between Labor and Spectacle Benjamin H D Buchloh | 43 |
Serras Abstract Thinking John Rajchman | 61 |
Richard Serras Sculptures in Landscape Lynne Cooke | 77 |
Plates | 107 |
CATALOGUE OF THE EXHIBITION | 398 |
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SELECTED EXHIBITION HISTORY | 404 |
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LENDERS TO THE EXHIBITION | 418 |
TRUSTEES OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN | 419 |
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