Richard Serra is considered by many to be the most important sculptor of the postwar period. The essays in this volume cover the complete span of Serra's work to date -- from his first experiments with materials and processes through his early films and site works to his current series of "torqued ellipses." There is a special emphasis on those moments when Serra extended aesthetic convention and/or challenged political authority, as in the famous struggle with the General Services Administration over the site-specific piece Tilted Arc. October Files October Files is a new series of inexpensive paperback books. Each book will address a body of work by an artist of the postwar period who has altered our understanding of art in significant ways and prompted a critical literature that is sophisticated and sustained. Each book will trace not only the development of an important oeuvre but also the construction of the critical discourse inspired by it. The series editors are Hal Foster, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Annette Michelson, Yve-Alain Bois, and Rosalind Krauss.
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Hal Foster is Townsend Martin '17 Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. He is the author of Compulsive Beauty (1993), The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century (1996), and Prosthetic Gods (2004), all published by the MIT Press, and other books.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2001. Softcover, 63 pp. Exhibition catalog, illustrated in black & white. Good with light age toning of page margins. This copy is missing its 8-page folding handout; the rear pocket is empty. The last (blank) page has a tear and a pressure crease at head. Seller Inventory # ABE-1678141171948
Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Numerous full page plates. With an essay by Hal Foster. Photographs by Dirk Reinartz. Includes 8 page fold-out in rear pocket, illustrating the installation at the Gagosian Gallery, October 18 - December 15, 2001. ; Tight, clean and crisp. A minor crease to bottom corner on the cover, otherwise a gently read book in excellent condition. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not ex-library. ; 63 pages. Seller Inventory # 31154
Book Description Softcover. BW illustrated wraps, 64 pp., BW illustrated. Issued in conjunction with a 2001 exhibition of relevant works rendered by American minimalist Richard Serra (b. 1939). With an essay by Hal Foster. Photographs by Dirk Reinartz. VG. One copy has a slightly bowed cover with some shelf wear. Seller Inventory # 147508
Book Description Foster, Hal (essay). RICHARD SERRA: Torqued Spirals, Toruses and Spheres. Photography by Dirk Reinartz; 64 pp., illustrated in b&w with loose 8 sided fold-out pamphlet illustrating the installation at the Gagosian Gallery. 4to, wraps. New York, Gagosian Gallery in association with Steidl, 2002. Seller Inventory # 100283
Book Description Softcover, 64 pages; very good condition; tiny crease to lower right corner tip of most pages, no internal marks. Includes the 8 page folded gallery handout in rear pocket. Foreign shipping may be extra. Seller Inventory # RiSeGa50.1
Book Description Softcover exhibition catalog, 64 pages; very good condition; clean and crisp, no internal marks. (This copy missing the 8 page folded gallery handout in rear pocket, but has the card to mail in to receive the free supplement). Foreign shipping may be extra. Seller Inventory # RiSeNY50
Book Description First Edition. 30 x 25 cm 64 pp with b&w illustrations throughout. Cloth, fine in dustwrapper. Seller Inventory # 22585
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.74. Seller Inventory # G1880154595I3N10