Published in conjunction with the opening of the new Saatchi Gallery in London, one of today’s most important institutions collecting and exhibiting contemporary art, this mammoth book is the most comprehensive volume on contemporary sculpture. The title itself refers to H. G. Wells’s eponymous novel which envisioned the future and was a surprisingly accurate prophecy reflecting the author’s own time. That book inspired Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which a great monolith is an iconic but enigmatic sculptural presence. This new book opens with an enormous, standing monolithic Styrofoam sculpture of a videocassette of 2001 and, like the Wells book, seeks to explore how sculpture will evolve in the coming decades.
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The most definitive survey of contemporary sculpture ever published.
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Meghan Dailey is an art historian and critic whose work appears in Artforum, Time Out New York, Frieze, and Art Press.
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This review is from: Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture (Hardcover)
Interesting that previous reviews deal with personal opinion on the book's content, rather than how well the book dealt with this particular content.
If you are indeed convinced that anything inside the book not concerned with the human figure is not sculpture, then obviously, this is not your book (nor will you ever find a contemporary one satisfactory, because you've seemingly stopped studying art history after Greco-Roman concerns). If aesthetic beauty is your only validation for art existing, then perhaps you should just stick to milling around your local Thomas Kinkade stores to find an object complimentary to your sofa. Since when should philosophical and artistic statements be so separate? Granted, the anti-bourgeois rant has been pushed beyond measure but to what extent does the text even speak for each individual work at all? As far as formulating an anthology of contemporary sculpture, to me creating the tie that binds is less important than the works themselves. I personally believe it is nearly impossible for any scholar or writer in the field of anthologies to create an umbrella text for this format of book that will satisfy all the needs of discussion the works may present. Example: Shows curated around a specific movement in time. One may curate a show on Abstract Expressionism and write a text about this supposedly all-encompassing movement. But when you are physically standing in front of both a Rothko and a Guston, the plain fact remains that regardless of the fact that these works were made around the same time, they are still completely different experiences that may have little to nothing to do with each other. I tend to want to purchase most collections or anthologies the Saatchi Gallery may put out, simply to due image or plate quality and size within the book. Don't be so quick to zero in on or trust an all-encompassing text. It's simply too easy and too risky. If I want to learn about each artist's work in the book, I'll read their personal statements, visit their websites or watch documentaries. If I want to venture into the problems dealt with by these artists at any length, there are plenty of books on contemporary theory and criticism. Among these contemporary sculptors, many have in-depth articles in prominent magazines. As far as a collection of images of contemporary sculpture, this book is first rate. The quality and amount of photos is worth the price alone. If you simply dislike work contained within as a matter of personal taste, look no further into it. That's the wonderful thing about art-- there's lots of it.
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This book makes more of a philosophical statement than an artistic one and it's not new or futuristic but rather the same old anti-bourgeois rant now taking physical form - Yawn. If you want to see truly uncontrived assemblages of detritus, visit my world, unzoned country America, where some people fling their junk into piles with completely careless disregard for composition.
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Art, I was thought, is not what is beautiful, it is our way of sensing the world we live in. By this book I can say we never lived such a bad time in history. Only a few can be well considered, as the one on its cover. Freedom to experince new materilas and possibilities is great, and that is all. No coment in the book at all, but I would not be able to say anything about it either...
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