Miracle in the Scrap Heap : The Sculpture of Richard Stankiewicz

by Donadio, Emmie

• ISBN13: 9781879886506
• ISBN10: 1879886502
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr

Summary

This book offers the first comprehensive survey of the art of Richard Stankiewicz (1922-1983) and reassesses its place in the art of his time. Stankiewicz's welded sculpture of rusted iron and cast-off steel played an important role in the redefinition of art in New York during the 1950s.Miracle in the Scrap Heap offers a lively consideration of Stankiewicz's sculpture in relation to the aesthetic attitudes and critical concerns of post-World War II American art. It is richly illustrated with his own art and that of his Euro-American contemporaries and predecessors. It is must reading for collectors, scholars, and anyone wishing to enlarge their conception of a pivotal period in modern art-and the unique achievement of a sculptor who can be classic, iconoclastic, and witty all at the same time.Emmie Donadio is associate director, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont.

Table of Contents

Introduction	6	(5)
ADAM D. WEINBERG
Miracle in the Scrap Heap: The Sculpture of Richard Stankiewicz	11	(45)
EMMIE DONADIO
Carrying the Torch: The Sculpture of Richard Stankiewicz and Its European Heritage	56	(5)
JON WOOD
Putting It All Together	61	(4)
MARTIN FRIEDMAN
The Sculpture of Richard Stankiewicz	65	(83)
Chronology	148	(10)
Selected Solo Exhibitions	158	(2)
Selected Group Exhibitions	160	(2)
Selected Public Collections	162	(1)
Bibliography	163	(9)
Checklist of the Exhibition	172	(2)
Index	174