[B]eautiful and immensely rewarding...
Midwest Book Review
Rachel Whiteread: Shedding Life is published on the occasion of a major exhibition of Whiteread's sculpture at the Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain. Rachel Whiteread is one of Britain's foremost sculptures, casting directly from familiar, everyday objects, she makes manifest the spaces in, under, on and between things, looking under the carpet and inside the wardrobe at the spaces and structures among which we live. Whiteread's sculpture has gained her national and international acclaim, winning the Turner Prize in 1993, and the commission to design a Holocaust memorial for Judenplatz in Vienna in 1995. Rachel Whiteread: Shedding Life is designed in collaboration with the artist and is extensively illustrated throughout. An introduction is provided by Fiona Bradley (Exhibitions Curator at the Tate Gallery Liverpool). Informative text is provided by Rosalind Krauss (Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University in New York), Bartomeu Mari (Director of the Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam), Stuart Morgan (writer and critics), and Michael Tarantino (independent curator. Rachel Whiteread: Shedding Life is a highly recommended addition to all academic and public library book collections on the art of sculpture.
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