Richard Serra

Richard Serra
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Richard Serra

Which art books, prints and posters are available by and about this artist? Here is a sample of items of interest to a typical collector:

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Book images
by
Hiroshi Sugimoto

Hiroshi Sugimoto

2006
with:
Richard Serra, Safran Foer
Edition:
1st
Edition size:
Signed by Serra and Foer
Out of Print
Prior edition(s):
Oversized hardcover with DJ, 39.6 x 29.7cm, 96 pages.
ISBN:
9783791336893
Condition: Fine

Joe

2006
Out of Print
Signed
Edition:
1st
Prior edition(s):
Oversized hardcover with DJ, 39.6 x 29.7cm, 96 pages.
Condition:
Condition: Fine

When renowned Hiroshi Sugimoto was invited to photograph the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, his attention immediately focused on an immense steel sculpture, Richard Serra's Joe, one of the artist's torqued spirals, which occupies a small courtyard of the museum. Joe allows viewers to walk in through a narrow passage between towering, sloping walls. The path leads to a surprising central space from which only the curving steel walls and the sky are visible. Combining extremely soft light and blurred darkness, Sugimoto's pictures in this book capture the elliptical nature of Serra's piece. His images are complemented by the words of Jonathan Safran Foer, whose affecting prose poem about an "average Joe" experiencing the circular passage of time—echoes, without directly referencing, Serra's sculpture.

Designed by Takaaki Matsumoto, this large-format book features tritone reproductions printed on luxurious uncoated stock. The result is an eloquent and visually arresting commentary on time, impermanence, and memory.