2010s Illustrated Quarto, Bernice Rose's Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective - 1 Book

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[Serra, Richard (1938-2024)] Rose, Bernice et al (edited by). Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective.

Houston: The Menil Foundation, Inc., 2011, … Read more [Serra, Richard (1938-2024)] Rose, Bernice et al (edited by). Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective.

Houston: The Menil Foundation, Inc., 2011, first edition, dedication leaf inscribed by artist, "To Diana - Richard Serra" in black ink. 4to; 232 pp. Black cloth, text interspersed with more than 80 quadratone plates. Matte black and white photo illustrated dust jacket. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Provenance: Ex. Diana and Marc Goldstein (1935-2015), SOM Design and Consulting Partner (1970-1991), responsible for some of SOM's most important architectural and urban planning accomplishments of the 20th century. Unmarked.

Over the last forty years, Richard Serra has received international acclaim for his unprecedented sculptural forms. His transformative drawings, while lesser known, are equally important to the discussion of art after modernism. This exhibition and catalogue represent the first critical retrospective of Serra's drawings. Experiential, conceptual, and perceptual, they have played a fundamental role in reshaping and redefining the medium. The artist's ability to invest these radically abstract works with extraordinary dynamism and human presence places him among the innovative artists whose work has undeniably influenced the groundbreaking transformations that have taken place in art since the late 1960s, including the confirmation of drawing as an art practice in its own right. Featuring full and partial page quadratone plates, original scholarly texts that trace Serra's investigation of drawing from him early work with charcoal and graphite to his large-scale, site-specific pieces, and interviews with the artist, this book examines his drawing as an activity both independent from and linked to his sculptural practice. Culminating with new, never before published works, this volume examines the evolution of Serra's materials, techniques, installation methods, and scale, which has resulted in drawings that require the viewer to engage with space in entirely new ways. See less