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Smith, David

 
9780520291881: David Smith: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Interviews
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ISBN 10 : 0520291883 ISBN 13 : 9780520291881
Editeur : University of California Press, 2018

Synopsis

This comprehensive sourcebook is destined to become a lasting and definitive reference on the art and aesthetic philosophy of the American artist David Smith (1906-1965). A pioneer of twentieth-century modernism, Smith was renowned for the expansive formal and conceptual ambitions of his broadly diverse and inventive welded-steel abstractions. His groundbreaking achievements drew freely on cubism, surrealism, and constructivism, profoundly influencing later movements such as minimalism and environmental art. By radically challenging older conventions of monolithic figuration and refuting arbitrary distinctions between painters and sculptors, Smith asserted sculpture's equal role in advancing modern art.

This compilation of Smith's poems, sketchbook notes, essays, lectures, letters to the editor, reviews, and interviews underscores the ways his writing articulated his private identity and promoted the social ideals that made him a key participant in contemporary discourses surrounding modernism, art and politics, and sculptural aesthetics. Each text is annotated by Susan J. Cooke with historical and contextual information that reflects Smith's process of continually reviewing and revising his writings in response to his evolving aspirations as a visual artist.

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À propos de l?auteur

Susan J. Cooke is Associate Director of the Estate of David Smith. Formerly an Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, she is the author of essays on David Smith, Jean Dubuffet, and Ralston Crawford.

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520291883
ISBN 13 
9780520291881
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
312
Éditeur
Cooke Susan J.
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Personne responsable
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