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Serra, Richard (Artist); McShine, Kynaston; Cooke, Lynne; Buchloh, Benjamin & Rajchman, John.
RICHARD SERRA SCULPTURE: FORTY YEARS.
New York City, NY:
Museum Of Modern Art,
2007.
Hardcover.
First Edition/First Printing.
418 pages.
As New/As New.
Retrospective exhibition monograph. One of the most important art events of the decade. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. A brilliant production by Richard Serra and McCall Associates New York: Oversize-volume format. A very thick book, it weighs 7 pounds. Handsome black cloth boards with black titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Art by Richard Serra. The stunning photographs of the works were taken by the artist and other contributors. Essays by Richard Serra scholars/curators Kynaston McShine, Lynne Cooke, Benjamin Buchloh, and John Rajchman. Selected Bibliography and Exhibition History appended at the end. Printed on thick coated stock paper in Gottingen, Germany by Steidl to the very highest standards. In pictorial DJ with white titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Published on the occasion of the massive retrospective exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) New York from June 3 through September 10, 2007. Presents the most thorough, comprehensive, and insightful assessment of Richard Serra's achievement as the single most influential and most important American sculptor of our time. "The art of Richard Serra is internationally admired for its powerful material qualities and its searching exploration of the relationship between the work, the viewer, and the site. Indeed, since his emergence in the mid-1960's, Serra is widely understood to have radicalized and extended the very definition of sculpture. Offers a detailed visual presentation and documentation of Serra's entire career, from his early experiments with materials like rubber, neon, and lead to the environmentally scaled steel works of recent years, including three monumental new sculptures created specially for the Museum of Modern Art's retrospective" (Publisher's blurb). "Monumental" is the word that is often used, best describes, and does justice to Richard Serra's work, compared to which, the works of his most noteworthy Sixties contemporaries, Carl Andre and Dan Flavin, have been (rather mercilessly) described by The New Yorker Magazine art critic Peter Schjeldahl as "parlor decor": "Proves that he is not only our greatest sculptor but an artist whose subject is greatness befitting our time. He works at the physical scale of architecture and at the intellectual scale of art history as a whole. My comprehension of his tons of shaped steel always feels inadequate to their conceptual subtlety, engineering sophistication, and, oh my, size. Taking a childlike view may be the best way to relax with and, to the extent possible, enjoy Serra's art. Don't try to understand. Play" (The New Yorker Magazine). One of the most magnificent retrospectives ever mounted by MOMA as the first decade of the 21st century draws to a close, this is a "must-have" title for Richard Serra collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black marker on the title page by Richard Serra. It is signed directly on the page, not on a tipped-in page. Richard Serra is a reclusive figure and does not do public signings. He made a very rare public appearance in New York City to sign a limited number of copies, all of which sold out the same evening. This title is an instant classic. This is one of extremely few signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition still available online and has no flaws, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. 381 tritone plates. The greatest living American sculptor. A flawless collectible copy. . ISBN 0870707124. $400.00 |
