Antony Gormley and Martin Gayford, Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now (Thames & Hudson, $60) The full title of this weighty book might lead readers to expect something like a conventional history lesson, a chronological approach to sculpture’s development across time and civilizations.
International Sculpture Day
Video: María Carolina Baulo in Conversation with Ignacio Unrrein (Part 2)
The International Sculpture Center, publisher of Sculpture magazine, is excited to present an interview with María Carolina Baulo and Ignacio Unrrein, the cover artist for Sculpture’s November/December 2020 issue.
Video: María Carolina Baulo in Conversation with Ignacio Unrrein (Part 1)
The International Sculpture Center, publisher of Sculpture magazine, is excited to present an interview with María Carolina Baulo and Ignacio Unrrein, the cover artist for Sculpture’s November/December 2020 issue.
A Conversation with Nick Hornby
“My practice over the last decade has been a very slow and systematic inquiry into authorship—the critique of authorship, methods of eliminating the personal subjective, and questions of digital reproduction. It led me to cool, calculated Boolean operations and slick, high-production sculptures.”
All the Dirt of Life: A Conversation with Sean Scully
For Irish-born, American artist Sean Scully, autobiography and experience serve as correctives to the dry determinism of Minimalism. By making Minimalism “emotional,” he advances the personal over formal concerns, emancipating his works from a Sol LeWitt-like cage and introducing a freedom refused by Ad Reinhardt and Barnett Newman in their day.
The Art of Collecting: Q&A with Craig Hall
“Craig Hall really loves art and artists, and he cares about getting to know them,” says Patricia Meadows, who has worked with Craig and his wife, Kathryn, for 25 years. The recipient of the ISC’s 2020 Patron Award, which was established in 1993 to recognize individuals who have made exemplary contributions to the advancement of contemporary sculpture, Hall is an entrepreneur, New York Times bestselling author, vintner, and philanthropist.
Intermediate Times
Kim Levin’s ELSEWHERE: The Tainted Garden and Other Essays on Art, Life, and the Anthropocene consists of 35 essays written between 1991 and 2017 and never published in the U.S. Ambitious in scope, this volume provides constructive commentary and clarification for our era of rapid change in both art and life.
Eclectic Autonomy
John Van Alstine: Sculpture 1971–2018, heavy and beautiful as a coffee table book, is much more than that. It is a tribute to John Van Alstine’s long career, spanning decades of work in which his sculptures have interpreted urban and pastoral influences, with a nod to the massive undertakings of Land artists such as Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer.
Bridging the Nature/Culture Divide
Thinking the Sculpture Garden: Art, Plant, Landscape offers a radical rethink of how we might interact harmoniously with plants and art in an age of globalization, climate change, and urbanization.
A New Look at Carol Bove
Reading Unfold This Moment, the Berlin-based critic Martin Herbert’s compact history of Carol Bove’s two-decade career, it struck me that I’ve seen a lot more of Bove’s work first-hand than I’d perhaps realized.
