Authors: Richard Serra
ISBN-13: 9780226748801, ISBN-10: 0226748804
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date Published: August 1994
Edition: 1
One of the most important sculptors of this century, Richard Serra has been a spokesman on the nature and status of art in our day. Best known for site-specific works in steel, Serra has much to say about the relation of sculpture to place, whether urban, natural, or architectural, and about the nature of art itself, whether political, decorative, or personal. In interviews with writers including Douglas and Davis Sylvester, he discusses specific installations and offers insights into his approach to the problem each presents. Interviews by Peter Eisenman and Alan Colquhoun elicit Serra's thoughts on the relation of architecture to contemporary sculpture, a primary component in his own work. From essays like "Extended Notes from Sight Point Road" to Serra's extended commentary on the Tilted Arc fiasco, the pieces in this volume comprise a document of one artist's engagement with the practical, philosophical, and political problems of art.
List of Illustrations | ||
1 | Verb list, 1967-68 | 3 |
2 | Play it Again, Sam | 7 |
3 | Shift | 11 |
4 | Document: Spin Out '72-'73: Interview | 15 |
5 | Prisoner's Dilemma: Interview | 19 |
6 | Interview | 27 |
7 | Sight Point '71-'75/Delineator '74-'76: Interview | 35 |
8 | Interview | 45 |
9 | About Drawing: An Interview | 51 |
10 | The Films of Richard Serra: An Interview | 61 |
11 | Rigging | 97 |
12 | An Opinionated Museum Goer: Interview | 103 |
13 | Interview | 111 |
14 | St. John's Rotary Arc | 119 |
15 | Richard Serra's Urban Sculpture: Interview | 125 |
16 | Interview | 141 |
17 | Interview | 157 |
18 | Extended Notes from Sight Point Road | 141 |
19 | Answers to Zone Questionnaire | 175 |
20 | Notes on Drawing | 177 |
21 | Weight | 183 |
22 | Interview | 187 |
23 | Tilted Arc Destroyed | 193 |
24 | Art and Censorship | 215 |
25 | Lehmbruck Award Speech | 225 |
26 | A Conversation with Richard Serra and Alan Colquhoun: Interview | 229 |
27 | Interview | 247 |
28 | Interview | 253 |
29 | Interview | 263 |
30 | Interview | 271 |