Richard Deacon

by Tazzi, Pier Luigi; Thompson, Jon; Schjeldahl, Peter; Curtis, Penelope

• ISBN13: 9780714839493
• ISBN10: 0714839493
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-06
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

Richard Deacon has occupied the foreground of British sculpture since the 1980s. His virtuoso constructions in wood or metal range in scale from the domestic to the monumental. Somewhere between aeronautics and anatomy, Deacon's sculptures recall chassis or ribcages. Some loop and curve out across space like three-dimensional drawings, others hover on the floor like great drops of liquid. The forms he creates evoke the material world of everyday artefacts and the inner world of the body, as site of sensuality, of memory and language.

Author Biography

Jon Thompson is a British artist, teacher, writer and curator. He was Head of Fine Arts at Goldsmith's College, London (1970-92) and is currently Head of Fine Art Studies at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, Netherlands. He co-curated with Greg Hilty the exhibition 'Gravity and Grace: The Changing Condition of Sculpture' in 1993 at the Hayward Gallery, London.

Pier Luigi Tazzi is an art critic and curator based in Florence. Formerly a lecturer at the University of Florence (1976-89), he has contributed to such art journals as Artforum, Museumjournaal and Wolkenkratzer. Tazzi was among the curators of the 42nd Venice Biennale (1988) and was Associate Director of Documenta 9 (1992).

Peter Schjeldahl is Art Critic for the New Yorker.  Scheldjahl has also written for Artforum, Parkett, Art News, Frieze and Art Press. His books include The Hydrogen Jukebox: Selected Writings 1978-1990 (1991) and Columns & Catalogues (1994) as well as five books of poetry; his writings have also appeared in the three editions of Art of Our Time: The Saatchi Collection.

Penelope Curtis is Head of Programmes at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, where she has organized historical contextualizing exhibitions of the work of distinguished late twentieth-century sculptors such as Giuseppe Penone and Michelangelo Pistoletto, as well as exhibitions, commissions and special projects with younger generation sculptors.

Table of Contents

Interview: Pier Luigi Tazzi	p. 6
Thinking Richard Deacon, Thinking Sculptor, Thinking Sculpture	p. 36
Deacon's Faith	p. 88
Purity and Danger, 1966	p. 98
Selections from Stuff Box Object, 1971-72	p. 110
Artist's Statement, 1982	p. 114
Silence, Exile, Cunning, 1986-88	p. 116
What Car? Correspondence with Lynne Cooke, 1992	p. 120
What You See Is What You Get, 1992	p. 132
Design for Replacing, 1987	p. 138
Design for Factory, 1993	p. 139
Reading: a propos de Toni Grand, 1993	p. 140
Chronology	p. 144
Bibliography	p. 158
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