Unmonumental

by Hoptman, Laura; Flood, Richard; Gioni, Massimiliano; Smith, Trevor

• ISBN13: 9780714848297
• ISBN10: 0714848298
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-28
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

In a world falling to pieces, a new breed of art objects is capturing its fractured allure in three dimensions.UNMONUMENTAL features recent work by thirty contemporary sculptors at the vanguard of their craft, selected by one of contemporary art's top curatorial teams.The sculptures in UNMONUMENTAL are forerunners in a major new artistic development.They are powerful but patently un-heroic; assembled from bits of the world at large, they are sardonic metaphors for our time.The artists featured in the book range from the just-emerged (Tobias Buche, Claire Fontaine, Gedi Sibony) to the internationally renowned (John Bock, Isa Genzken, Rachel Harrison).UNMONUMENTAL is generously illustrated with large full-color photographs of the works, most of which have never before been published.UNMONUMENTAL was created in conjunction with the inaugural exhibition of the New Museum of Contemporary Art's landmark new building, designed by Seijima + Nishazawa / SANAA, on the Bowery in New York.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 7
Acknowledgments	p. 9
Not about Mel Gibson	p. 10
Sculptures by Alexandra Bircken, John Bock, Carol Bove, Martin Boyce, Tobias Buche, Carlos Bunga, Tom Burr, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Aaron Curry, Sam Durrant	p. 14
Biographies
Ask the Dust	p. 64
Sculptures by Urs Fischer, Claire Fontaine, Isa Genzken, Rachel Harrison, Elliott Hundley, Gabriel Kuri, Jim Lambie, Nate Lowman, Sarah Lucas, Matthew Monahan	p. 78
Unmonumental: Going to Pieces in the 21st Century	p. 128
Sculptures by Kristen Morgin, Manfred Pernice, Anselm Reyle, Marc Andre Robinson, Eva Rothchild, Lara Schnitger, Gedi Sibony, Schinique Smith, Nobuko Tsuchiya, Rebecca Warren	p. 140
Sculpture: a minor place	p. 184
Yesterday's News	p. 192
A Critical Glossary of Space and Sculpture	p. 206
Notes	p. 210
Contributors	p. 212
Index	p. 214
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