
Counterpoint
Sculpture, Music, and Walter De Maria's Large Rod Series
Gavin Delahunty(Editor)
Walter De Maria(Primary creator)
Yale University Press
Published on 7. March 2017
Book
Hardback
80 pages
978-0-300-22573-0 (ISBN)
Description
Walter De Maria (1935-2013) was a pioneering American artist associated with the Minimal, Conceptual, and Land Art movements. This insightful book is the definitive source on his renowned Large Rod Series, exemplary works that represent the artist's contribution to the development of Minimalism. De Maria's penchant for mathematical patterns and precise measurements can be seen throughout his oeuvre and is particularly evident in these floor-based sculptures produced between 1984 and 1989. Incorporating an analysis of De Maria's early musical compositions, this book explores a previously unexamined historical precedent in his percussion recordings and provides a new framework in which to understand the series. The inclusion of detailed artist's notes, archival photographs, and new documentation of the work's installation provide additional context for these deceptively simple works.
Distributed for the Dallas Museum of Art
Exhibition Schedule:
Dallas Museum of Art
(10/19/16-01/22/17)
SFMOMA
03/25/17-11/05/17
Distributed for the Dallas Museum of Art
Exhibition Schedule:
Dallas Museum of Art
(10/19/16-01/22/17)
SFMOMA
03/25/17-11/05/17
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
35 color + 8 b-w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 310 mm
Width: 236 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
771 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-22573-0 (9780300225730)
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Persons
Gavin Delahunty is the Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art.
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Primary creator
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