Richard Serra

Richard Serra is considered by many to be the most important sculptor of the postwar period. The essays in this volume cover the complete span of Serra's work to date -- from his first experiments with materials and processes through his early films and site works to his current series of "torqued ellipses." There is a special emphasis on those moments when Serra extended aesthetic convention and/or challenged political authority, as in the famous struggle with the General Services Administration over the site-specific piece Tilted Arc.October Files October Files is a new series of inexpensive paperback books. Each book will address a body of work by an artist of the postwar period who has altered our understanding of art in significant ways and prompted a critical literature that is sophisticated and sustained. Each book will trace not only the development of an important oeuvre but also the construction of the critical discourse inspired by it. The series editors are Hal Foster, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Annette Michelson, Yve-Alain Bois, and Rosalind Krauss.

ISBN 0262561301   Pages 217 ISBN13 9780262561303 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher MIT Press Ltd   Weight (grammes) 385 Imprint MIT Press   Published in Cambridge, Mass. Format Paperback   Series ISSN 01 Publication date 01 Nov 2000   Series title October Files Non-book description 205 p. :   Height (mm) 229 Library of Congress N6537.S385   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 730.92   Spine width (mm) 10 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level General

		Series Preface
		Acknowledgments
		Process Sculpture and Film in the Work of Richard Serra (1978) by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh		1
		The Films of Richard Serra: An Interview (1979) by Annette Michelson		21
		A Picturesque Stroll around Clara-Clara (1983) by Yve-Alain Bois		59
		Richard Serra: Sculpture (1986) by Rosalind Krauss		99
		Redefining Site Specificity (1986) by Douglas Crimp		147
		The Un/making of Sculpture (1998) by Hal Foster		175
		Index of Names		201

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