<p>Richard Deacon has occupied the foreground of British sculpture since the 1980s. His virtuoso constructions in wood or metal range in scale from the domestic to the monumental, their structure recalling both engineering and anatomy. The forms he creates evoke the material world of everyday artefacts and the inner world of the body, as a site of sensuality, memory and language.<br>The survey by British writer and curator Jon Thompson traces the genealogy of Deacon's work in relation to language; the artist talks with Italian scholar Pier Luigi Tazzi, co-Director of Documenta IX, about the context of space and place; US art critic Peter Schjeldahl reveals the complexities of a single sculpture, Keeping the Faith (1992). Deacon's selected text, by renowned anthropologist Mary Douglas, is on dirt 'as matter out of place'. His own writings are on subjects ranging from Rilke's poetry to the car as public sculpture. This revised and expanded second edition includes over fifty additional pages documenting Deacon's work from 1995 to 2000. Deacon's recent writings - a key text, 'In Praise of Television', and an interview with critic Ian Tromp - accompany an update essay by Penelope Curtis, Curator at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds. Curtis approaches Deacon's recent work through an examination of the links between his drawings and collages and the three-dimensional sculptures. She reveals the continuing experimental nature of Deacon's work, which despite being the subject of international public commissions, resists the formulaic and the monumental.</p>

Richard Deacon (Contemporary Artists) (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

Arts & Photography

Peter Schjeldahl

Jon Thompson

Pier Luigi Tazzi

PENELOPE CURTIS

Individual Artists

Phaidon Press

Since the early 1980s, Anish Kapoor's investigations into objecthood, materiality and gravity have explored the concept of the void, or "objects becoming space." His sculptures, installations and public art test the phenomenology of space and have historically been characterized by intensely tactile or reflective materials--like colored pigments, wax, fiberglass, polished stainless steel and PVC--that resist any narrative reading. This volume documents Kapoor's 2008 commission for the Deutsche Guggenheim, which travels to New York in 2009. Conceived as an intervention in the galleries that prevents any one complete viewing or experience of the work, and fabricated of Cor-Ten steel with industrial hinges and flanges exposed, the work tests the boundaries between sculpture and painting. It is considered in this volume through the lenses of philosophy, structural analysis and postcolonial and architectural theory. In addition to ample color reproductions of the work itself, this volume includes preparatory sketches and architectural renderings.

Anish Kapoor

HOMI K. BHABHA

Hayward Gallery

Kapoor, Anish

In a career spanning approximately twenty years, Welsh artist Bethan Huws has adopted a wide range of differing aesthetic and conceptual approaches which often reference names of artists and titles of works associated within the stream of readymade and Conceptual art. Illustrated throughout with works clearly reproduced and printed on thick glossy paper, this catalogue produced for the exhibition Fountain presents an extensive overview of significant works from the different periods of her career. Featured alongside sketches, watercolours, installations and sculptural pieces are other additional works specific to the artist such as word vitrines, wall texts and floor pieces. All works are documented by bibliographic notes and accompanied by essays Vincent Honoré and Ulrich Loock

Bethan Huws: Fountain

Serralves

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