
Shape of Things to Come
New Sculpture
Saatchi Gallery(Author)
Rizzoli International Publications (Publisher)
Published on 8. September 2009
Book
Hardback
672 pages
978-0-8478-3253-8 (ISBN)
Description
Published in conjunction with the opening of the new Saatchi Gallery in London, one of today's most important institutions collecting and exhibiting contemporary art, this mammoth book is the most comprehensive volume on contemporary sculpture. The title itself refers to H. G. Wells's eponymous novel which envisioned the future and was a surprisingly accurate prophecy reflecting the author's own time. That book inspired Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which a great monolith is an iconic but enigmatic sculptural presence. This new book opens with an enormous, standing monolithic Styrofoam sculpture of a videocassette of 2001 and, like the Wells book, seeks to explore how sculpture will evolve in the coming decades.
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The most definitive survey of contemporary sculpture ever published.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Illustrations
600 COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS
Dimensions
Height: 296 mm
Width: 297 mm
Thickness: 58 mm
Weight
4481 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8478-3253-8 (9780847832538)
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Persons
Meghan Dailey is an art historian and critic whose work appears in Artforum, Time Out New York, Frieze, and Art Press.