Revised and Expanded: Rachel Whiteread - Softcover

Mullins, Charlotte

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849765634 ISBN 13: 9781849765633

Publisher: Tate Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Rachel Whiteread has single-handedly expanded the parameters of contemporary sculpture with her casts of the outer and inner spaces of familiar objects, sometimes in quiet monochrome, sometimes in vivid jewel-like colour. She won the Turner Prize in 1993, the same year as her first large-scale public project, House, a concrete cast of a nineteenth-century terraced house in London's east end. This book, by writer and editor Charlotte Mullins - the first significant survey to examine Whiteread's career to date - has been substantial updated with a new chapter containing 10 major works, including Tate's Turbine Hall installation Embankment and Cabin, Whiteread's first permanent public sculpture in America. Born in London in 1963, Rachel Whiteread is one of Britain's most exciting contemporary artists. Her work is characterised by its use of industrial materials such as plaster, concrete, resin, rubber and metal. With these she casts the surfaces and volume in and around everyday objects and architectural space, creating evocative sculptures that range from the intimate to the monumental.

About this title

About the Author:

Charlotte Mullins has written widely on contemporary art, architecture, design and art history for specialist art magazines, newspapers and exhibition catalogues since 1995. She is a regular guest on BBC arts programmes such as Front Row and Saturday Review.

Review:

"(Rachel Whiteread) shows us the unseen, the inside-out, the parts that go unrecognized."

About this edition

• Publisher: Tate Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1849765634
• ISBN 13: 9781849765633
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144