"This book makes available a series of documents concerning the attempt by a United States Government Agency (the General Services Administration) to remove and thereby destroy Richard Serra's Tilted Arc, a sculpture at Federal Plaza, New York City. ... [details]
Large-scale publication on public sculpture throughout the world. Features work by Constantin Brancusi, Marino Marini, Ossip Zadkine, André Ramseyer, Jean Arp, Max Bill, Marta Pan, Venanzo Crocetti, Kengiro Azuma, Klaus Schultze, Jean Tinguely, Eduardo Chillida, Mathias Goeritz, Bruno Giorgi, Edgar Negret, Federico Silva, Manuel Felguérez, Helen Escobedo, Sebastian Hersúa, Churyo Sato, Emilio Greco, Yutaka Toyota, George Tsutakawa, Group Q, Alexander Calder, David Smith, George Rickey, François Stahly, Louise Nevelson, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Tony Smith, Barnett Newman, Alexander Liberman, Minoru Niizuma, José de Rivera, Harry Bertoia, Masayuki Nagare, Jacques Lipschitz, Giacomo Manzù, Leonard Baskin, George Segal, Herbert Bayer, Claes Oldenburg, Isamu Noguchi, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Jean Dubuffet, and Pablo Picasso. ... [details]
Critical theory text focusing on important exhibitions of the twentieth century. Text by Bruce Altshuler. Artists include Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Wassily Kandinsky, Henri Rousseau, Odilon Redon, Hannah Höch, André Masson, Joan Miró, Hans Bellmer, Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Giorgio de Chirico, Joan Mitchell, Willem de Kooning, Arman, Daniel Spoerri, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Claes Oldenburg, Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Robert Smithson, Joseph Kosuth, Lawrence Weiner, Richard Serra, Eva Hesse, and many more. ... [details]
"The Poetry Reading : A Contemporary Compendium on Language & Performance is a vital and major volume of essays, interviews, and original materials that explore the rich sources, influences, and the vibrant current condition of how poetry is performed and revealed in a variety of contexts. ... [details]
Critical theory text by Edward Lucie Smith. Comprehensive essays written on twentieth century art, including architecture, painting, sculpture and photography, grouped into categories by decade. Artists include Alvar Aalto, Vito Acconci, Ansel Adams, Josef Albers, Lawrence Alloway, Benny Andrews, Guillaume Apollinaire, Karel Appel, Diane Arbus, Arman, Hans [Jean] Arp, W. ... [details]