书名：Joel Shapiro: Sculpture and Works on Paper 1969–2019 / 乔·夏皮罗：雕塑与纸上作品 1969-2019年
定价：650.0
ISBN：9783858818294
作者：Richard Shiff
版次：1
出版时间：2019-01

内容提要：

题 目：Joel Shapiro: Sculpture and Works on Paper 1969–2019 / 乔·夏皮罗：雕塑与纸上作品 1969-2019年

作 者：Richard Shiff

出 版：Scheidegger & Spiess，2019

装 帧：精装，224页

语 种：英文

尺 寸：24*30 cm

 

 

乔·夏皮罗1941年生于纽约，是同代艺术家中最具代表性的人物之一。自1969年在惠特尼美国艺术博物馆里程碑式的"反幻觉：程序/材料"展览中首次公开亮相以来，他的个展足迹已遍布全球各大画廊与美术馆。 

夏皮罗虽以1980至1990年代开创动态雕塑的独特语汇而闻名——这种风格模糊了抽象与具象的界限，但早在1970年代纽约的早期展览中，他便以微型日常形态的运用崭露头角：在保留工业遗存特质的大型展场中，椅子、房屋、飞鸟或桥梁等微缩造型重塑了观者的尺度感知，挑战了当时盛行的极简主义冷峻风格，试图建立一种更个性化、情感充盈的艺术模式，以更直接地观照人类生存境况。此后他持续拓展雕塑的材料与概念边界——同时保持着作为创新绘图师与版画家的实践——通过多元材料与创作手法的运用。

《乔·夏皮罗：1969-2019雕塑与纸本作品》是二十余年来首部系统梳理艺术家完整创作生涯的专著。艺术史学家理查德·希夫在长篇论文中犀利重新审视夏皮罗的艺术体系与创作过程，阐释其作品何以始终保持流动性与不可预测性，既具连贯又充满变化。全书配有二百余幅精美全彩插图，这场期待已久的巡礼终为这位至关重要的美国艺术家补上了迟来的注脚。

Born in New York in 1941, Joel Shapiro is one of the most significant artists of his generation. Since the first public showing of his work in 1969 as part of the landmark Anti-Illusion: Procedures/Materials exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, he has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions in galleries and museums around the world.

Shapiro is most renowned for developing in the 1980s and ’90s a distinctive language of dynamic sculpture that blurs the lines between abstraction and figuration, But he first became known through his earliest shows in New York in the 1970s for introducing common forms in often diminutive size—a chair, a house, a bird or bridge—in large, formerly industrial gallery settings that altered one’s sense of scale, challenged the then-dominant severity of minimalism, and attempted to propose a more personal, emotionally laden mode of art that could more directly engage with the human condition. Since then, he has continued to push the material and conceptual boundaries of sculpture —while also remaining active as an innovative draftsman and printmaker—by working in a number of materials and employing various working methods.

《Joel Shapiro: Sculpture and Works on Paper 1969–2019》is the first book in more than twenty years to survey the artist’s entire working career. In an extensive essay, art historian Richard Shiff provides a fresh and incisive examination of Shapiro’s oeuvre and working process, illuminating the factors and forces that allow his work to remain ever in flux and unpredictable, cohesive and yet multifarious. With more than two hundred striking full-color illustrations, this is a long-anticipated and much-needed survey of this vital and essential American artist.