Richard Serra : sculpture / Rosalind E. Krauss ; edited and with an introduction by Laura Rosenstock ; essay by Douglas Crimp.

By: Krauss, Rosalind E .

Contributor(s): Serra, Richard, 1939- | Crimp, Douglas | Rosenstock, Laura | Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.).

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BookPublisher: New York : Museum of Modern Art, 1986Description: 184 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0870705903; 087070592X .Subject(s): Serra, Richard, 1939- -- Exhibitions | Sculpture, American -- Exhibitions

| Sculpture, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions

DDC classification: 730.92 SER

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Lending	MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending	730.92 SER (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00057996
General Lending	MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending	730.92 SER (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00193382

Total holds: 0

"Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 27-May 13, 1986"--T.p. verso

Bibliography: p. 177-179.

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Library Journal Review

The recent controversy over Serra's ``Tilted Arc'' in New York City's Federal Plaza has focused attention on the artist's large-scale public works and on the purpose of such works. This catalog of a 1986 MOMA exhibition is a more balanced look at the whole range of Serra's oeuvre. The disclaimer over the content of the Crimp essay on public art, with its ironic view of the ``redefinition of the site of a work of art as the site of a political struggle,'' is amended by the idea of MOMA as a public forum for diverse views on contemporary art. The nature of Serra's work is to involve the viewer in the process itself, an interaction between artist and viewer. Unfortunately, the numerous black-and-white illustrations fail to bring alive the power and excitement described in the text. Paula Frosch, Metropolitan Museum of Art Lib., New York (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

CHOICE Review

This book accompanies this important abstract sculptor's first retrospective American exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Though first conceived in 1976, both the book and the exhibition were brought to fruition in the shadow of, and partly in response to, the tumultuous controversy that raged around the possible removal of Serra's sculpture, Titled Arc, from its site in lower New York City in 1985. A photograph of this work adorns the cover of the book. Even the preface by William Rubin disavows the ``rhetorical'' and ``polemical'' tone of Douglas Crimp's essay and its strident defense of the site specificity of the artist's work. Rosalind Krauss's essay, however, is the most substantial contribution in the book, and curator Laura Rosenstock has provided a rather elementary historical overview of the artist's work. Although the book has a good bibliography, chronology, and illustrations, it is not an evenhanded summation of the artist's work. Rather, it must take its place as a specialized book that is part of a larger context: the swirling debate related to public sculpture and that debate's focus on the controversial, difficult, and important sculpture of Richard Serra. For undergraduate and graduate art collections.-M.E. Shapiro, The Saint Louis Art Museum/formerly Duke University