
Sterling Ruby
Alessandro Rabottini(Editor)
JRP Editions SA (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published in May 2014
Book
168 pages
978-3-03764-375-4 (ISBN)
Description
The multitude of media and techniques used by Sterling Ruby (*1972) in his work-ranging from sculpture to collage, installation to painting, ceramics to video and printing-reflects the issues he tackles: the conflict between individual impulses and mechanisms of social control, the coercive function of architectonic space, art as the domain of irrationality, the sphere of dysfunctional behavior, Minimalism and Art Brut, graffiti art, urban violence, desire, and pleasure. * * His works combine memory of the past with attention to contemporary urban and popular phenomena. It is an art of expression and accumulation, of the overproduction of information and of the delirium of the senses, of neurosis and paranoia, and in which the gigantism of the shapes and their proliferation appear like a corrupt manifestation of desire, consumption, anxiety, and the need for control that characterizes contemporary occidental culture. * * Second edition.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Zurich
Switzerland
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
75 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 28.6 cm
Width: 23.7 cm
Weight
940 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-03764-375-4 (9783037643754)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Sterling Ruby | Jörg Heiser | Robert Hobbs
Sterling Ruby
Book
01/2009
2nd Edition
JRP Editions SA
€40.00
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