Pacing the world : construction in the sculpture of David Rabinowitch
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Pacing the world : construction in the sculpture of David Rabinowitch
Harvard University Art Museums, distributed by Harvard University Press, 1996
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Exhibition catalogue
Publication of this volume accompanied the exhibition held at the Harvard University Art Museums, Sep. 14, 1996-Jan. 12, 1997
Notes: p. 275-281
Biographical chronology: p. 283-286
Bibliography: p. 287
List of illustrations: p. 288-284
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This profusely illustrated book is the first full-length study of the Canadian-born sculptor David Rabinowitch. Working in New York since 1972 and extensively in Europe since the early 1980s, Rabinowitch became Professor of Sculpture at the Staatliche Kunstakademie, Dusseldorf, in 1984. Whitney Davis closely analyzes six groups of works produced by Rabinowitch between 1963 and the present, comparing their rigorous constructivism with the "minimalism" of American sculptors such as Donald Judd. Davis also explores Rabinowitch's relations to the work of modern painters and sculptors from Cezanne to David Smith, and his involvement with the wider history of art.
This title is published in conjunction with an exhibition which opened at the Fogg Museum in September 1996.
Table of Contents
- Construction in the field - the "Box Trough Assemblages" and "Fluid Sheet Constructions" (1963-64)
- the sense of a frame of reference - the "Gravitational Vehicles" (1965)
- sustaining inertial properties and relations - the "Mass Works" (1968-69)
- at the horizon of construction - the "Tyndale Constructions" (1975-90)
- difference in full view - the early "Metrical Constructions" (1973-78)
- pacing the world - the later "Metrical Constructions" (1978-90). Appendix: four texts by David Rabinowitch.
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