Richard Serra. English

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"Since the 1960s, Richard Serra's monumental sculptures have provoked a multitude of reactions in the art community. This monograph, an anthology of essays by an impressive international group of critics, addresses the controversy and the complex intellectual background behind Serra's work. Planned to coincide with a traveling European exhibition, the book includes among its 300 illustrations a series presenting for the first time Serra's latest installation in Munich. Working primarily with enormous steel plates, Serra creates abstract sculptural "anti-environments." In 1985, when the United States proposed to remove Serra's Tilted Arc from New York's Federal Plaza, Serra and his supporters focused attention on the role of art in public places with the argument that "to remove the work is to destroy the work." The sculpture and the legal battle are discussed here at length in Douglas Crimp's essay, "Serra's Public Sculpture." Ernst-Gerhard Güse explores the ideas behind Serra's sculpture Fassbinder, and the remaining essayists cover the early work, the drawings, and other major sculptures. As becomes clear in these pages, Serra is an artist who exploits all of art's potential for arousing tension, energy, anger, and fear. For its comprehensiveness and insightful criticism, Richard Serra is destined to become the essential work on this artist, considered by many to be the most important sculptor of his generation." --

Genre: Art / Individual Artists / General (fancy, right?)