A Guggenheim Museum Publication Rachel Whiteread (b. 1963) creates spare, poetic sculptures that challenge perceptions of the commonplace. Working from everyday domestic items, she casts-in rubber, concrete, plaster, and polyester resin-the negative spaces inside closets and underneath beds, sinks, bathtubs, and chairs. Now, in what may be her most personal project to date, the Turner Prize-winning artist has been commissioned by Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin to make two large-scale casts from distinct spaces in a London building that she recently purchased to become her home and studio. Although the building has a history as both a synagogue and a factory, it is a product of austere postwar architecture, lacking many of the traditional embellishments associated with such structures. 
This fully illustrated volume documents Whiteread's process as she creates casts from this religious-cum-industrial-cum-personal space, which blurs boundaries between the spiritual and secular, as well as the public and private. 75 illustrations in full color, 170 pages, 9 x 11"

Rachel Whiteread: Transient Spaces

Arts & Photography

Houser, Craig

Whiteread, Rachel

Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin

Individual Artists

Guggenheim Museum Pubns

Black and white illustrations. ISP Papers, No. 3. Accompanied June 23 through August 29, 1993 exhibition at the Whitney Museum of Art. Includes "A Sadomasochistic Drama in an Age of Traditional Family Values" by Jack Ben-Levi, "Transgressive Femininity: Art and Gender in the Sixties and Seventies" by Leslie C. Jones, "The Phobic Object: Abjection in Contemporary Art" by Simon Taylor, and "I, Abject" by Craig Houser. Exhibition checklist. Selected Bibliography. 112p.

Abject Art: Repulsion and Desire in American Art (ISP Papers, No. 3)

Taylor, Simon

Jones, Leslie C.

Ben-Levi, Jack

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF ART.

Francesco Clemente has, since the 1980s, been a leading artist in the international revival of expressionist figure painting and sculpture. Clemente's subjects--rooted in both the physical and the surreal, spiritual worlds--create a vast body of work that appeals to diverse audiences. Clemente draws upon a pan-historic web of impulses, mediating among the myriad cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, Byzantium, Europe, India and America. Stylistically his work recalls the Italian Renaissance, Indian miniatures, European Romanticism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. Clemente's widespread cultural interests and nomadic lifestyle--New York is his home but he spends part of each year in Italy, India and the New Mexico desert--have deeply affected his art. This lavishly produced catalogue accompanies the first major survey devoted to the painter.

Clemente

Corso, Gregory

MEHTA, GITA

Jain, Jyotindra

Clemente, Francesco

Ricard, René

Van Sant, Gus

CREELEY, Robert

Pellizzi, Francesco

Foye, Raymond

Guggenheim Museum

New Lower Price! Rachel Whiteread creates spare, poetic sculptures that challenge perceptions of the commonplace. Working from everyday domestic items, she casts--in rubber, concrete, plaster and polyester resin--the negative spaces inside closets and underneath beds, sinks, bathtubs and chairs. In one of her most personal projects, the artist was commissioned by Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin to make two large-scale casts from distinct spaces in a London building that she recently purchases as her home and studio. Although the building has a history as both a synagogue and a factory, it is a product of austere postwar architecture, lacking many of the traditional embellishments associated with such structures. This fully illustrated volume documents Whiteread's process as she creates casts from this religious-cum-industrial -cum-personal space, which blurs boundaries between the spiritual and secular, as well as the public and private.

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