Richard Deacon: What You See is What You Get

Deacon, Richard; Feldman, Anita, and Plotek, Ariel (Edited by)

ISBN 10: 0937108553 / ISBN 13: 9780937108550

Published by San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, 2017

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Pictorial boards, 111 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 27 cm. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Richard Deacon: What You See Is What You Get presented at The San Diego Museum of Art from March 25 to July 25, 2017. Firm binding, clean inside copy. *** "Among the artists who redefined British sculpture in the 1980s, Richard Deacon (born 1949) remains a pioneering figure. This book presents the full range of the artist's oeuvre, from freestanding sculptures and wall-mounted works to glazed ceramics and works on paper. Deacon sidesteps the issue of technique: nails, screws and mounts are not hidden in his sculptures, and willowy bent-wood pieces contrast with carefully engineered constructions in galvanized steel and welded polycarbonate. Like the tension in so many of Deacon's titles, this book suggests a paradox. As with the whole of the artist's oeuvre, the selection in this book, spanning more than 30 years, is based on contradictions: the tension between a word and its meaning." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Director's foreword, by Roxana Velasquez; Ut sculptura poesis, by Ariel Plotek; Useful ambiguities, by Robin Clark; Art for other people, by Richard Deacon; Interview with Richard Deacon, by Anita Feldman. Size: 4to.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Richard Deacon: What You See is What You Get
• Publisher: San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0937108553
• ISBN 13: 9780937108550
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine
• Book Type: Collectible
• Seller catalogs:
  • Movements::Minimalism & Post-Minimalism
  • European::British & Irish
  • Media::Sculpture
  • XL: Extra Large
  • New Books
  • XXX::COLLECTIBLES

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Synopsis

Among the artists who redefined British sculpture in the 1980s, Richard Deacon (born 1949) remains a pioneering figure. This book presents the full range of the artist’s oeuvre, from freestanding sculptures and wall-mounted works to glazed ceramics and works on paper. Deacon sidesteps the issue of technique: nails, screws and mounts are not hidden in his sculptures, and willowy bent-wood pieces contrast with carefully engineered constructions in galvanized steel and welded polycarbonate.

Like the tension in so many of Deacon’s titles, this book suggests a paradox. As with the whole of the artist’s oeuvre, the selection in this book―spanning more than 30 years―is based on contradictions: the tension between a word and its meaning.