Richard Serra

by Foster, Hal

• ISBN13: 9780262561303
• ISBN10: 0262561301
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-14
• Publisher: The MIT Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Hal Foster is Townsend Martin '17 Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University and the author of Prosthetic Gods (MIT Press) and other books.

Table of Contents

Series Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Process Sculpture and Film in the Work of Richard Serra (1978)	1	(20)
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh
The Films of Richard Serra: An Interview (1979)	21	(38)
Annette Michelson
A Picturesque Stroll around Clara-Clara (1983)	59	(40)
Yve-Alain Bois
Richard Serra: Sculpture (1986)	99	(48)
Rosalind Krauss
Redefining Site Specificity (1986)	147	(28)
Douglas Crimp
The Un/making of Sculpture (1998)	175	(26)
Hal Foster
Index of Names	201