Richard Serra Drawing
A Retrospective
Published on 14. June 2011
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-0-300-16937-9 (ISBN)
Description
As the focal point of numerous high-profile exhibitions, the sculpture of Richard Serra (b. 1939) has drawn international acclaim. Yet even those who have marveled at Serra's intellectually rigorous and large works of sculpture may not be familiar with his equally intriguing drawings. This handsome book brings together for the first time Serra's drawn work, considering the artist's investigation of medium as an activity both independent from and linked to his pioneering sculptural practice.
First working in ink, charcoal, and lithographic crayon on paper, Serra originally used drawing as a means to explore form and perceptual relations between his sculpture and the viewer. Over time, his drawings underwent significant shifts in concept, materials, and scale and became fully realized and autonomous works of art. The grand, bold forms he created with black paintstick in his monumental Installation Drawings were designed to disrupt and complement existent spaces and eventually began to occupy entire rooms. In the late 1980s, Serra explored the tension of weight and gravity through layering, and his most recent work experiments with surface effects, using mesh screens as intermediaries between the gesture and the transfer of pigment to paper.
Distributed for The Menil Collection
Exhibition Schedule:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art(04/11/11-08/28/11)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (10/15/11-01/16/12)
The Menil Collection (03/02/12-06/10/12)
First working in ink, charcoal, and lithographic crayon on paper, Serra originally used drawing as a means to explore form and perceptual relations between his sculpture and the viewer. Over time, his drawings underwent significant shifts in concept, materials, and scale and became fully realized and autonomous works of art. The grand, bold forms he created with black paintstick in his monumental Installation Drawings were designed to disrupt and complement existent spaces and eventually began to occupy entire rooms. In the late 1980s, Serra explored the tension of weight and gravity through layering, and his most recent work experiments with surface effects, using mesh screens as intermediaries between the gesture and the transfer of pigment to paper.
Distributed for The Menil Collection
Exhibition Schedule:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art(04/11/11-08/28/11)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (10/15/11-01/16/12)
The Menil Collection (03/02/12-06/10/12)
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
160 quadratone illus.
Dimensions
Height: 311 mm
Width: 253 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
1722 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-16937-9 (9780300169379)
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Persons
Lizzie Borden is a filmmaker and writer based in Los Angeles. Magdalena Dabrowski is a Special Consultant for Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Gary Garrels is the Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Bernice Rose is the Chief Curator of the Menil Drawing Institute and Study Center. Richard Shiff is the Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art and directs the Center for the Study of Modernism at the University of Texas at Austin. Michelle White is Associate Curator at the Menil Collection.