Rachel Whiteread / edited by Ann Gallagher and Molly Donovan

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Object Details

artist
Whiteread, Rachel 1963-
editor
Gallagher, Ann
Donovan, Molly 1966-
host institution
Tate Britain (Gallery)
21er Haus (OĢˆsterreichische Galerie Belvedere)
National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
St. Louis Art Museum
Subject
Whiteread, Rachel 1963-
Published to accompany an exhibition of the same name held at Tate Britain, 12th September, 2017-21st January, 2018; 21er Haus, Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna, 7th March-29th July, 2018; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 16th September, 2018-13th January, 2019; Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri, 17th March-9th June, 2019.
Contents
Material culture / Ann Gallagher -- Vies trouveĢes (found lives) / Molly Donovan -- House / Rachel Whiteread and James Lingwood in conversation with Ann Gallagher -- Art as memorial / Harald Krejci -- Sense and sensibility / Lynn Zelevansky -- Eyes cast / Briony Fer -- The power of things / Linsey Young -- The dream site / Brian Dillon
Summary
"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. Whiteread came to prominence in 1990 with her work House 1993-4, a life-sized cast of the interior of a condemned terraced house in London's East End, which existed for a few months before it was controversially demolished. She subsequently won the Turner Prize in 1993, the first woman to do so, and has gone on to create major public projects ever since, notably the Holocaust Memorial 1995 in Vienna, and Cabin 2015 in New York. A major mid-career retrospective at Tate Britain (Whiteread's first) will bring together her iconic works and series (including Untitled (Staircase) 2001), along with new work made especially for the exhibition. New texts will explore a range of themes in Whiteread's practice, from Ghost and the domestic, to public commissions, to housing and the wider social context of her work. An extended biography and bibliography will update available information on the artist."--Amazon
2017
Type
Books
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
Physical description
237 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Smithsonian Libraries
Record ID
siris_sil_1092382
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0