Circuit, 1972

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TitleCircuit

Creator nameSerra, Richard

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date1972

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsHot-rolled steel, four plates

Dimensions8 ft. x 24 ft. x 1 in. (2.4 m x 7.3 m x 2.5 cm), each

LocationMuseum of Modern Art, New York

SubjectsSculpture, American--20th centuryLarge-scale sculpture

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To Lift, To Splash, To Prop...

Richard Serra (Editor), Hal Foster (Editor)

Conversations about Sculpture

~HF: Let’s bear down on some key early works.

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Richard Serra (Editor), Hal Foster (Editor)

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.39-60

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00033.005

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Chapter subject tags:Sculpture, American--20th centuryGlass, PhilipMinimal artJohn, Jasper, 1839-Artists--Interviews--20th centurySerra, Richard, 1939-

6. The Phenomenological Turn

Alex Potts

The Sculptural Imagination: Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist

If there was one word which dominated discussion of new departures in three-dimensional art in the 1960s, it was the object. What kind of an object could still count as art? Or, more radically, how might work be produced that escaped the closures of conventional conceptions of the object? Minimalism, along with the Neo-Dada and conceptual tendencies of sixties art, brought these issues to a head, Minimalism perhaps most dramatically because the work involved so evidently had object-like …

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Alex Potts

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.207-234

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00156.010

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Chapter subject tags:Phenomenology and artSculpture, Modern--AppreciationArt criticism--History--20th centuryMerleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961Krauss, Rosalind E.Fried, MichaelStructuralism (Art)Sculpture, Modern--20th century

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