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Richard Serra (Editor), Hal Foster (Editor)
Description: Conversations about Sculpture
Conversations about Sculpture
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Richard Serra (Editor), Hal Foster (Editor)
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Copyright© 2018 by Richard Serra and Hal Foster
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Above Below Betwixt Between (Serra), 142–144, 143, 146
Abstract Expressionism, 11, 21, 254
abstraction, 151, 206, 207, 233–234
Adorno, Theodor, 169, 232
African sculpture, 206
aggression, and public art, 244–246, 248, 250
Albers, Josef, 3, 5, 46;
The Interaction of Color, 11–12
Andre, Carl, 13, 27, 42, 46, 64, 202, 209, 211, 254;
Lever, 26, 37, 98
archetypes, 151
Art Deco, 208
Arte Povera, 18
Asher, Michael, 86, 87, 88–89
assemblage, 16, 17, 18, 19, 211
 
Bacon, Francis, 13
Band (Serra), 127, 128, 134, 136
Baroque architecture, 122–123, 124, 125, 173, 179
Barthes, Roland, 15
Base Plate Deflection: In It, On It (Serra), 99, 101, 102
Baudelaire, Charles, 197
Bauhaus, 5, 11
Baxandall, Michael, 108, 111
Becher, Hilla and Bernd, 179
Beethoven, late work of, 169
Bellamy, Dick, 43, 50
Bellamy (Serra), 114
Belts (Serra), 20, 39
Benjamin, Walter, 137, 236, 239, 259n
Bennett, William, 219
Berlin Block (for Charlie Chaplin) (Serra), 104, 105, 106, 107, 236, 240
Berlin Junction (Serra), 172
Bernini, 196
Berswordt-Wallrabe, Alexander, 106
Bezos, Jeff, 158
Blind Spot Reversed (Serra), 119
Bloom, Harold, The Anxiety of Influence, 50
Bontecu, Lee, 13
Borromini, Francesco, 2, 123, 124, 173, 196
Brakhage, Stan, 21
Brancusi, Constantin, 3, 14, 15, 37, 38, 136, 187, 206–209;
The Cock, 206;
Endless Column, 165, 187;
Mademoiselle Pogany, 207;
Princess X, 207, 207;
studio, 13, 14;
Târgu Jiu sculpture compound, 166, 206;
Venus of Lespugue, 207;
Yellow Bird, 13
Branne für das Ruhrgebiet (Serra), 79, 80
Brassai, 205
Brecht, Bertolt, 236, 239
Broodthaers, Marcel, 87
Brown, Trisha, 28;
Accumulation, 33;
Leaning Duets, 29
Buchloh, Benjamin, 90
Buren, Daniel, 87, 88–89
Bush, George W., 219
Butor, Michel, 15
 
Cage, John, 16;
Silence, 15
Calder, Alexander, 224, 245
Calvino, Italo, Six Memos for this Millennium, 170
Cambodian pots (Ban Chiang), 4, 185
Camus, Albert, 9, 15
Castelli Gallery, rigging accident at, 223, 225
Casting (Serra), 54
Cézanne, Paul, 7, 21
Chamberlain, John, 27
de Chirico, Giorgio, 194–195;
Piazza d’Italia, 195
Christian Democratic Party (CDU), 231
Chunk (Serra), 46, 47
Circuit (Serra), 60, 61, 98, 102, 170
Clara-Clara (Serra), 70, 73, 75, 257n
Clinton, Bill, 219
Close, Chuck, 10, 19, 46
color, 12
Color Aid (Serra), 12
Conceptual art, 5, 23, 25
Connector (Serra), 134
Consequence (Serra), 106
Constructivism, 95;
neo-Constructivism, 42, 211;
Russian, 13, 200, 202, 213, 239
Le Corbusier, 4, 74, 169;
Ronchamp, 173, 174
Cornfeld, Leslie, 220
corporate building sites, 75
Counterweights (Serra), 142, 169
Crimp, Douglas, 221
culture wars, 217, 219
Cutting Device: Base Plate Measure (Serra), 57, 58
Cycle (Serra), 134
 
dance performance, 3, 28, 29, 32, 33, 235, 243
Degas, Edgar, Grande Arabesque, Third Time (First Arabesque Penchée), 189
de Kooning, Willem, 13, 21, 211
Deleuze, Gilles, The Fold, 123, 125
Delineator (Serra), 115, 116
demythologization, 254
Dewey, John, 5
Diamond, William, 219
Diderot, 197
Diller Scofidio + Renfro, 244
Dirk’s Pod (Serra), 179
Donatello, 4, 193;
Equestria Statue of Gattamelata, 190–191, 191, 198;
Judith and Holofernes, 192;
Saint John the Evangelist, 192;
The Prophet Habakkuk, 190, 190
Doors (Serra), 39, 40, 42
Double Torqued Ellipse (Serra), 113
Downs, Rackstraw, 10
Drowned and the Saved, The (Serra), 153, 155
Duchamp, Marcel, 3, 11, 42, 46, 182, 208;
Tu m’, 13;
urinal, 98
Dürer, Albrecht, Melancholia, 204
 
earthworks, 62, 65, 66, 79
East-West/West-East (Serra), 82, 85, 86, 95, 166
Egyptian architecture, 163–164
Ehrenzweig, Anton: 62, 257n;
The Hidden Order of Art, 23
Eisenman, Peter, 168, 180
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 5, 9, 187, 199, 257n
Equal (Serra), 151, 152, 157, 163, 166, 167, 240
Etruscan sculpture, 4, 184, 185, 187
Every Which Way (Serra), 137, 144, 145, 146
Exchange (Serra), 77
existentialism, 9, 255
 
filmmaking, 33–34, 76–77
Flavin, Dan, 3, 12, 13, 21, 23, 27, 42, 98, 142, 182, 202, 209, 210, 211, 234;
Kornblee Gallery show, 25, 26;
Monuments to Tatlin, 25
forged steel works, 106, 107, 108, 250
Forti, Simone, 3, 28
Foucault, Michel, The Order of Things, 16
Four Rounds: Equal Weight, Unequal Measure (Serra), 108, 109, 111
Frame (Serra, film), 75, 76
Francesca, Piero della, 108, 111
Fried, Michael, 216
Fulcrum (Serra), 246, 249
 
Gabo, Naum, 42, 200
Gallo, Joe, 225
Gauguin, Paul, 184
Gehry, Frank, 1, 180, 242
General Services Administration, 1, 219
gestalt readings, 4–5, 67
Giacometti, Alberto, 3, 13, 37, 38, 164, 184, 193, 202–204, 206, 209;
Cube, 204, 205, 205;
Hand Caught by the Fingers, 204;
The Palace at 4 a.m., 202, 202, 204;
Project for a Passageway, 202, 203, 204;
Standing Woman, 203–204;
Suspended Object, 204;
Walking Man, 203–204;
Woman with Her Throat Cut, 202–203, 203, 204
Giménez, Carmen, 173
Glass, Philip, 1, 3, 15, 19, 43, 45, 45, 46, 48, 52, 57
Glueck, Grace, 219
Gombrich, E.H., 91
González, Julio, 187, 211
GPS technology, 127, 131
graffitied art work, 244–245, 246, 248
Graham, Dan, 64, 89
Graves, Nancy, 16, 37
gravity, 19, 39, 143, 150, 153
Gravity (Serra), 99, 153, 154
Gray, Camilla, The Great Experiment, 13
Gray, Spalding, 46
Greek sculpture, 184, 185;
Boy with Thorn, 188;
Discus Thrower, 188;
Poseidon, 187–189, 188, 198
Greenberg, Clement, 91, 197, 203, 216
Grief and Reason (For Walter) (Serra), 148, 149, 151, 166
Guggenheim Bilbao, 117, 119, 121, 122, 127, 242
Guggenheim, Peggy, 19
Guston, Philip, 11, 12, 21
 
Haacke, Hans, 87, 88–89
Hagia Sopia, Istanbul, 173
Hand Catching Lead (Serra, film), 34, 36, 77
Hand Lead Fulcrum (Serra, film), 77
Harrow, Gus, 220
Hartung, Hans, 13
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 9
Hedgehog and the Fox, The (Serra), 70, 71, 119
Hegel, G.W.F., 197
Heizer, Michael, 65;
Double Negative, 62
Hesse, Eva, 2, 21, 27, 48, 52, 115
Higgins, Edward, 13
Hildebrand, Adolf von, 197
Holocaust Museum, Washington D.C., 99, 153
House of Cards (Serra), 23, 34, 35, 37, 38, 46, 91, 92, 95, 142, 257n
Huxley, Aldous, 8
 
idealism, 208–209
Incan architecture, 150, 162–163
industrial labor, 9–10, 235–236
industrial materials/methods, 121–122, 173, 174, 176, 177, 179, 180, 211–213
industrial scale, 174–175
industrial spaces, 174, 179
Inside Out (Serra), 125, 126, 127, 134, 136
internal necessity, 45
Intersection (Serra), 251
Interval (Serra), 137, 148
intervals, and passages, 136, 137, 139
Into and Across (Serra), 108, 110
Irwin, Robert, 182
Isherwood, Christopher, 8
 
Javits, Jacob, 219
Joe (Serra), 248, 252
Johns, Jasper, 11, 12, 21, 37, 42, 52, 55, 136, 212, 215–216
Johnson, Raymond, death of, 212, 223, 225
Jonas, Joan, 28
Judd, Donald, 3, 21, 23, 25, 42, 43, 48, 64, 98, 121, 142, 203, 207, 209, 210;
art movement of, 212;
“Specific Objects”, 27;
Untitled (1968), 22
Judson Church dance performances, 3, 28, 33, 235, 243
Junction (Serra), 134, 136
Jung, Carl, 151
 
Kahn, Louis, 4, 46;
Salk Institute, 180, 181
Kandinsky, Wassily, 45
Kapoor, Anish, 121
Kelly, Ellsworth, 12, 15, 16, 121, 151
Kennedy, Jackie, 219
Kienholz, Ed, 18
Kohl, Helmut, 168
de Kooning, Willem, 13, 21, 211
Koolhaas, Rem, 180
Koons, Jeff, 121, 239
Kounellis, Jannis, 18
Krauss, Rosalind, 1, 166, 209
Kruger, Barbara, 171
Kubler, George, 92, 98, 191, 193, 197;
The Shape of Time, 91
Kubrick, Stanley, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 250
 
Lacan, Jacques, 204
La Chapelle, Ray, 225
Landry, Dickie, 46
landscape sites, 62, 65, 66–67, 70, 82
late style, 169–170
Lawler, Louise, 1, 66
lead material, 3, 43, 52, 212, 254;
models, 175
Lebrun, Rico, 8
leftover sites, 67, 77, 79, 220
LeWitt, Sol, 13, 23, 211
Lin, Maya, 167
Lissitzky, El: Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge, 233, 234;
Design for an Abstract Cabinet, 144
Live Animal Habitat (Serra), 17
Loos, Adolf, 148, 151
 
Machu Picchu, 162–163, 164
Magritte, René, 13
Maillart, Robert, 4, 171, 213
Manet, Edouard, 198
Mangold, Robert, 10
Manzoni, Piero, 18
Marden, Brice, 10
Marxist critique, 213–214
materialism, 2, 208, 209, 213
Matisse, Henri, 7, 12, 21, 169;
The Serf, 189;
The Serpentine, 186, 186
Matter of Time, The (Serra), 118
McShine, Kynaston, 123
Mead, Margaret, 8
Measurement of Time/Seeing Is Believing (Serra), 237
Meese, Ed, 219
Melville, Herman, 9
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin, 167–168
Merleau-Ponty, 144, 162
Michaux, Henri, 15
Michelangelo, 4;
Laurentian Library, 193–194, 194, 196;
The Slaves, 193
Michelson, Annette, 33, 158, 236
Mies van der Rohe, 4, 169, 171
minarets, 131
Minimalism, 3, 23, 27, 37, 38, 42, 48, 182, 209–211, 250
Minimalist architecture, 177
Mondale, Joan, 219
Mondrian, Piet, 161, 233;
Foxtrot, 13
monolith, 250
monumental sculpture, 165–168
monuments, 162–164
Morris, Robert, 48, 139, 157, 165
Mouffe, Chantal, 246
Mozarabic architecture, 173
muralists, Mexican, 3, 8, 19, 74, 239
museum architecture, 242–245
 
Namuth, Hans, 19
Naples (Serra), 117
Nauman, Bruce, 2, 21, 27, 48, 115, 139
Newman, Barnett, 12, 21, 27, 203, 233;
Broken Obelisk, 250;
Here I, 6, 50
New Objectivity photography, 236, 239
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 8
NJ-1 (Serra), 139, 140
NJ-2 (Serra), 139
 
Oldenburg, Claes, 19, 27, 28, 87;
Cash Register, 50;
Floor Burger, 21, 22, 50, 52;
Store objects, 52
Oliver, Steve, 82
Ong, Walter, 8
Open Ended (Serra), 127, 130
Orozco, José, 8, 74
 
Pacquement, Alfred, 173, 229
Panofsky, Erwin, 148
passages, and intervals, 136, 137, 139
Paxton, Steve, 28
Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation controversy, 228–229
Pevsner, Antoine, 42, 200
phenomenological understanding, 162, 250, 253
Picabia, Francis, 87
Picasso, Pablo, 8, 21, 136, 164, 170, 184, 187, 207, 211;
Absinthe Glass, 200;
Death’s Head, 204–206, 205;
Guitar, 200, 201;
Monument to Apollinaire, 202;
Venus of Gas, 207
Play It Again, Sam (Serra), 65
Plinths (Serra), 6, 48, 49, 50
politics and sculpture, 231–233
Polke, Sigmar, 243
Pollock, Jackson, 8, 13, 15, 19, 21, 23, 28, 115;
Autumn Rhythm, 216;
Mural, 19, 20, 39
Pop art, 87
Post-Minimalist art, 25
postmodern architecture, 177, 229
prehistoric sculpture, 4, 162–164, 185
prime objects, 91, 92, 97–99, 102, 104
process and presentness, 216
Promenade (Serra), 95, 96, 97, 131, 133, 134
propping, 92, 95, 97
public art, 82, 239–240, 245
Pulitzer, Emmy, 248
Pulitzer Piece: Stepped Elevation (Serra), 57, 62, 99, 100, 104, 137
 
Railroad Turnbridge (Serra, film), 76, 77, 158, 239
Rainer, Yvonne: Rose Fractions, 28, 33;
“Trio A”, 32
Ramble (Serra), 137, 138
Rauschenberg, Robert, 11, 12, 13, 18;
Elemental Sculptures, 214–215
Re, Edward, 217
Reading Cones (Serra), 225, 226
Reagan, Ronald, 219
Reich, Steve, 3, 46, 52, 137;
Come Out, 33
Reinhardt, Ad, 11, 12–13, 48
relief sculpture, 196–197
Renaissance art, 108, 111
Renger-Patzsch, Albert, 236, 239
Riegl, Alois, 134
rigging accidents, controversy over, 212, 223–225, 228
Rivera, Diego, 233
Rodchenko, Alexander, 42, 200, 202, 213
Roebling, John and Washington, 171, 213
Romanesque architecture, 157, 173
Romanesque sculpture, 197
Rothko, Mark, 194, 220
rubber material, 3, 19, 39, 43, 46, 48, 49, 50, 214, 254
Rubin, William, 221
Russell, Bertrand, 87, 88, 91
Ryman, Robert, 209
 
Said, Edward, 169
St. John’s Rotary Arc (Serra), 67, 68, 77, 112, 171, 246
Samaras, Lucas, 18, 212
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome, 2, 123, 124
Santa Maria cathedral, Burgos, Spain, 146
sarcophagus, 148, 150, 151, 158
Sartre, Jean Paul, 144, 232
Schapiro, Meyer, 197
Scharoun, Hans, 4, 171, 172
Schwitters, Kurt, 48, 215
sculptural architecture, 34, 242–245
Sequence (Serra), 127, 128, 134, 136, 183
7 (Serra), 131, 132
Sherman, Cindy, 1, 66, 88;
History Portraits, 87;
Untitled Film Stills, 87
Shift (Serra), 57, 59, 62, 75
Sight Point (Serra), 67, 69, 74, 92, 131, 134, 246
Silberman, John, 222
Silence (For John Cage) (Serra), 146, 147, 148, 151, 157, 158
Siqueiros, David, 8
sites: change over time, 240;
corporate, 75;
landscape, 62, 65, 66–67, 70, 82;
leftover, 67, 77, 79, 220;
non-site, 89;
urban, 66–67, 70, 74–75, 77, 79, 168, 245–246
site-specificity, 66, 89, 97, 102, 104, 108
Slant Step Folded (Serra), 50
Slow Roll: For Philip Glass (Serra), 43, 44
Smith, David, 121, 187;
Australia, 211
Smith, Tony: 159, 196, 258n;
Die, 165, 250
Smithson, Robert, 1, 2, 6, 21, 27, 48, 64, 64–65, 75, 79, 89, 91, 115, 157, 165, 171, 255;
Amarillo Ramp, 62;
Spiral Jetty, 62
Snake (Serra), 117, 119
Snake Eyes and Boxcars (Serra), 82, 83
Snow, Michael, 46;
Wavelength film, 33
Sonnabend, Ileanna, 13
Spin Our (for Bob Smithson) (Serra), 62, 63
Spirals (Serra), 112, 115, 117, 119, 127
Splashing (Serra), 52, 53, 66, 97, 102, 104
Splash Piece: Casting (Serra), 52, 55, 62
Stacks (Serra), 70, 72
stainless steel, 121
steel industry, 121–122, 235–236
Steel Mill/Stahlwerk (Serra, film), 236, 238
steel sculpture, 1, 57, 60, 211–212;
forged, 106, 107, 108, 250;
model, 177;
plates, 12, 95, 98, 131, 212–213;
stainless steel, 121;
welded, 4, 210–211
Stella, Frank, 11, 12, 214
Stella, Joseph, Brooklyn Bridge, 239
Strike, 52, 57, 62, 98–99, 102, 104, 112, 142, 170
Strike: to Roberta and Rudy, 56, 91
Surrealism, 203, 204
Susini, Clemente, 16
di Suvero, Mark, Hankchampion, 214
Sylvester, David, 1
symbolic form, 4, 151, 156, 158, 162, 167
symbolism in sculpture, 2
 
Târgu Jiu sculpture compound, 166, 206
Tatlin, Vladimir, 42, 200, 202, 213;
Corner Counter Relief, 201;
Monument to the Third International, 233, 234;
Selection of Materials, 200
tectonics, 4, 165, 168, 171, 177
Template (Serra), 50, 51
Terminal (Serra), 229, 230, 231, 240
Te Tuhirangi Contour (Serra), 82, 84
Thoreau, Henry, 9
Thoré-Bürger, Théophile, 198
Through (Serra), 139, 141, 142, 144, 146, 169, 227
Tilted Arc (Serra), 67, 102, 103, 112, 166, 246;
attacks on, 1, 2, 217, 219–220, 222;
concavity/convexity of, 171, 173;
consequences of controversy, 221–222;
and cultural politics, 217, 219;
destruction of, 1, 4, 89, 218, 240;
hearing on, 1, 217, 219;
legal battle over, 220–221;
site-specifity of, 104
To Encircle Base Plate Hexagram, Right Angles Inverted (Serra), 77, 78, 79, 91, 102, 121
To Lift (Serra), 43, 45–46, 91–92, 93, 117, 121
tomb sculpture, 148, 150
Topkis, Jay, 220, 221
topological surface, 92
Torqued Ellipses (Serra), 2, 92, 112, 113, 115, 117, 119, 123, 127, 222, 234
Torqued Ellipse V (Serra), 94
Tot (Serra), 153, 156
transcendentalists, American, 9
Troughs (Serra), 39, 41, 42
Trump, Donald, 219
Turrell, James, 95, 182, 234
Twombly, Cy, 18, 208, 215
2000 (Serra), 176
T.W.U. (Serra), 246, 247
 
Uccello, Paola, Battle of San Romano, 111
UC Santa Barbara, 7–10, 15
Union of the Torus and the Sphere, The (Serra), 119, 120, 179
urban sites, 66–67, 70, 74–75, 77, 79, 168, 245–246
Utzon, Jørn, 4;
Sydney Opera House, 180, 181
 
Varnedoe, Kirk, 1
Velásquez, Diego, 198;
Las Meninas, 16
Venturi, Robert, 228–229
“Verb List” (Serra), 23, 24, 25, 33, 43, 91, 98
Vermeer, Johannes, 198
Vico, Giam Battista, 151
Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Maya Lin), 167
Vortex (Serra), 134, 135, 166, 248, 250
 
Wake (Serra), 177, 178, 179
Walker Art Center, rigging accident at, 212, 223, 225
Warhol, Andy, 3, 6, 12, 21, 23, 64, 65, 87, 115, 171, 182
Warshaw, Howard, 8, 10
“Weight” (Serra), 150
welded sculpture, 4, 210–211
Welliver, Neil, 46
Westermann, H.C., 27, 212
Weyergraf-Serra, Clara, 1, 25, 66, 88, 92, 95, 142, 148, 153, 157, 165, 166, 182, 193, 209, 234, 235, 255, 256; on art world, 241;
on museum architecture, 242, 243–244;
on phenomenological, 253;
on public art, 82, 240, 246, 248;
on rigging accidents, 224, 225;
and Steel Mill/Stahlwerk film, 236, 238;
on Tilted Arc controversy, 217, 219, 220, 221, 222;
on urban sites, 70, 79, 81
Whitman, Walt, 9
Wölfflin, Heinrich, 91
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 4, 171
 
Yale University, 3, 10–13, 46