ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1982
Jezik: Engleski
Oblast: Skulptura
Autor: Strani

Izdavač: George Braziller, New York
Priredili: Edward F. Fry, Miranda McClintic
Povez: broširan
Broj strana: 144
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For David Smith, America`s greatest sculptor of the twentieth century, there is little difference between drawing, painting and sculpture. He easily moved from one medium to the next and indeed one subject to the next, such that a drawing could be a unique object in its own right or a sculpture could in turn be inspiration for a drawing. A factory worker during World War II, Smith found his muse in materials and heavy equipment. These years were lean for a sculptor due to a shortage of available industrial scrap metal and Smith found himself working most feverishly with brushes and ink on paper. Smith`s works from the 1930s are harsh and recall the horrors of war. His Medals for Dishonor, created as prints, drawings and small bronze medallions commemorate the disasters of war and reveal a heartfelt anxiety and a pervasive liberal social concern. An etching from the series titled Women in War (lot 303) does not simply depict the violence of war but stands as an iconic protest against it.

Smith was an artist of the outdoors; his work bears the mark of his surroundings. Black lines on white paper can suggest natural elements like sticks in a snow covered field, or even less empirical and rather conceptual renderings of his sculpture imagined within the same snow covered field. In the later Cubi sculptures rising high above the landscape, the sanded steel surfaces reflect the light and dematerialize the edges of each form creating a phenomenon recalling Giacommetti`s cast bronze figures made to appear as if dissolving within a strong existential cloud of light.

C O N T E N T S:

Lenders to the Exhibition
Foreword - Abram Lerner
Acknowledgements - Miranda McClintic
David Smith: An Appreciation - Edward F. Fry
David Smith: Painter, Sculptor, Draftsman - Miranda McClintic
Chronology
Plates
Annotated Catalog of the Exhibition
Selected Bibliography

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