Richard Serra

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 

 fiasco, the pieces in this volume comprise a document of one artist’s engagement with the practical, philosophical, and political problems of art.

Richard Serra: Writings/Interviews

A painting by On Kawara, titled MAY 11, 1967, dated 1967.

On Kawara, One Million Years (Past), 1970-1971, Page 2001

Texts by On Kawara, Makoto Oda, and Tadashi Yokoyama

A scarce catalogue on Kawara's previously unstudied five-year stay in Tokyo, where he was part of influential avant-garde art student associations and wrote many pieces of art criticism. His violent and grotesque imagery from this period is in stark contrast to his streamlined conceptual 

series (1953-54; Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art), Events in a Warehouse and a number of figurative paintings and drawings executed in Japan.There are two essays, in both Japanese and English, "The History of an Odd Generation" by Makoto Oda, and "At the Junction of Time and Space: On Kawara in the 1950s" by Tadashi Yokoyama. The latter half of this book, alluding to his 

 series, is a collection of newspaper headlines from 1952 to 1956 in both languages, printed on newsprint.

On Kawara 1952-1956, Tokyo

Preface by Nicholas Fox Weber. Text by Kelly Feeney

This catalogue for a traveling exhibition considers the working drawings and spontaneous studies of Josef Albers, beginning with the landscapes and figure studies he created before enrolling at the Bauhaus, to abstractions inspired by archeological sites in Mexico, to color studies for his famous 

 paintings. An essay by the curator Kelly Feeney notes important influences and explores the development of Albers’s “seeing.”

Out of print

Josef Albers: Works on Paper

Portraits. Luc Tuymans

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