These contemporary American artists have produced a series of monumental public sculptures for sites throughout America and Europe, among them the controversial "Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks" at Yale University, "Batcolumn" in Chicago and the "Mistos (Match cover)" in Barcelona. This book details the individual histories of 27 sculptures, presenting the artists' personal viewpoints on them, together with a range of contemporary essays and observations made at the time the works were created. Interwoven into the case histories are original notes and sketches, working drawings, models and engineering plans. Each work is illustrated with colour photographs and numerous documentary photographs from the project's development.

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen: Large-scale Projects

Arts & Photography

OLDENBURG, Claes

Van Bruggen, Coosje

Celant, Germano

History & Criticism

Thames and Hudson Ltd.

The world-renowned British sculptor Tony Cragg is an intriguing combination of artist and scientist, chemist and alchemist, believer and sceptic, whose work has had an immense influence on a whole younger generation of post-formalist sculptors. Born in Liverpool in 1949, Cragg abandoned his scientific background to pursue a career as an artist, and has, over the course of some twenty-five years, evolved a prodigious oeuvre, exhibiting widely and earning international acclaim. His remarkable and extensive body of sculpture, astonishingly diverse, ranges from early works in natural elements to large-scale plastic and wood assemblages, from metal-spiked pieces to smooth, sensual bronzes.This exceptional study of Cragg's sculpture, the fullest and most comprehensive to date, provides a thorough visual survey of work dating from the early 1970s to the present day, tracing the artist's development from his formative years at the Wimbledon School of Art through his conceptual, rather than stylistic, evolution of a sculptural vernacular. Following an introductory critique from Germano Celant, there is an extensive plates section focusing on individual works, bringing out the unique shape, colour and texture of each piece. Interwoven with the photographs are reflections from the artist himself, lending insight and understanding to his methods and motivations. A full reference section, with a short biography, a list of works, an exhibition history and select bibliography, concludes the monograph.

Tony Cragg

Cragg, Tony

Individual Artists

Thames&Hudson

Giorgio Armani

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Koda, Harold

Museo Guggenheim Bilbao

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Guggenheim Museum Pubns

The definitive book on a creative force who continues to influence sculpture and installation art
Jessica Stockholder has long broken down the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and architecture to explore the body in social and cultural space - using found objects intertwined with profusions of vivid colours. This revised, updated edition spotlights the extraordinary evolution of her career, and examines the pivotal role she has played in shaping some of the most fundamental ideas around which contemporary sculpture and painting revolve today.

Jessica Stockholder: Contemporary Artists series (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

TILLMAN, Lynne

Schwabsky, Barry

Cooke, Lynne

Phaidon Press

Book by Celant, Germano, Spector, Nancy, Bruno, Giuliana, Schmidt, Katharina

Rebecca Horn

Bruno, Giuliana

SPECTOR, Nancy

Schmidt, Katharina

Hard cover with dust jacket. Guggenheim museum exhibition by famed curator Germano Celant.

The Italian Metamorphosis, 1943-1968

Guggenheim Museum

Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology

Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) first made his mark on the New York art scene in the early 1960s, and from that time he has been widely regarded as one of America's most influential and appealing artists. His subject matter is the everyday object - food, clothing, mechanical devices, and the like - which he reincarnates into witty and provocative sculptures ranging in scale from the intimate to the expansive. This volume, published to accompany a major retrospective organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, is the most comprehensive to date on Oldenburg and his multifaceted art. Interweaving photographs of installations and Happenings, texts, and new reproductions of the sculptures and drawings, this lavishly produced book traces Oldenburg's entire career. Among the subjects presented are The Street, his early exhibition devoted to the street life of New York City; The Store, his infamous array of painted plaster sculptures of food and clothing, which he sold in a Manhattan storefront; the celebrated soft sculptures; his drawings for fanciful monuments; and the large-scale public projects made in collaboration with Coosje van Bruggen.

National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Jim Dine (b. 1935) is one of America's best-known image-makers. This book, published to accompany the first major exhibition of Dine's work from the 1960s, reproduces a broad selection of his early mixed-media works, paintings, and sculptures. Many of the works featured in this volume contain elements of the now-familiar themes of Dine's career: tools, robes, hearts, palettes, and domestic interiors. Bringing together fascinating performance photographs with vivid full-color reproductions, the book is the first to explore the complex relationship between Dine's mixed-media works and his environments and theater pieces.

Jim Dine: Walking Memory, 1959-1969

Reference

DINE, Jim

Bell, Clare

Blaut, Julia

Catalogs & Directories

A sumptuous photographic essay, which accompanies a new museum exhibition, celebrates the design genius of Armani, discussing his wide influence and the radical changes in fashion that he has inspired, tracing the evolution of his unique artistry. 20,000 first printing.

European Iceberg

Rizzoli

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