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Books : Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years


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by: Kynaston McShine, Lynne Cooke, John Rajchman, Benjamin Buchloh, Richard Serra

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 730.92
EAN: 9780870707124
ISBN: 0870707124
Label: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Manufacturer: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 420
Publication Date: June 01, 2007
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Release Date: June 01, 2007
Sales Rank: 102330
Studio: The Museum of Modern Art, New York



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Product Description:
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.



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Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - excellent purchase
Besides the extraordinary contents of the book, I was surprised by the correct and coherent service of delivery. Nice.



Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Interesting read but poor pictures
I saw the exhibit at the New York MOMA and it was moving and breathtaking. I purchased the book afterwards from Amazon and was pretty disappointed by the pictures in the text. The black and white photos do not capture the essence or intrinsic qualities of the steel that Serra used. Further, the picture quality itself was poor, often out of focus or just a cheap job on printing. Perhaps the author just wanted to focus on the bare forms of the works. But the quality of the pages and prints are ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - STUNNING
This book is a stunning collection of Richard Serra's work over the years. Truly an American master. I am always intrigued by the choice to do Serra in black and white, but it works. I consider this book an essential addition to my collection of art texts.



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Complete Serra in black and white...
This is the catalogue for the current Serra exhibition at the Moma in NY. Divided into four chapters, the first being an interview of the artist, the second focusing on the early works, the third on "Serra's abstract thinking" and the fourth on his sculptures in landscapes, it is a high-quality survey of the work of possibly the greatest sculptor alive.

The text is profound and scholarly, which makes this publication a valuable tool for art students and teachers.

However, ... Read More




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