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Jason Rhoades

Four Roads
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The Los Angeles based sculptor Jason Rhoades was widely celebrated for sprawling, ambitious, and daring installations, editions, and events prior to his untimely death in 2006. Although he was far better known in Europe than America, many of Rhoades's peers considered him to be one of the most important artists of his generation. In his work, cultural touchstones ranged from high to low, including the artists Marcel Duchamp, Donald Judd, and Paul McCarthy, race-car driver Ayrton Senna, actor Kevin Costner, the big bang, Swedish erotica, and the California gold rush. This volume, accompanying the first US survey of his works, centres on four highly sensory, large-scale pieces that incorporate neon, radio, smoke rings, and even a model train into large environments that engulf the viewer. These four canonical installations are navigated via five critical essays that help unify Rhoades's labyrinthine, often overwhelming methods into the single overarching project he envisioned. The book also features illustrations of each major work dating from 1991 to 2006, accompanied by explanatory texts that illuminate Rhoades's materials and methods as both highly accessible and artistically complex. AUTHOR: Ingrid Schaffner is senior curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. SELLING POINTS: . This volume examines the remarkable legacy of Jason Rhoades's complex body of work. 94 colour photos

Author Biography:

Ingrid Schaffner is Senior Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Release date Australia
March 1st, 2014
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Contributors
  • Contributions by Chris Kraus
  • Contributions by Ingrid Schaffner
  • Contributions by Martha Buskirk
  • Contributions by Paul Schimmel
Country of Publication
Germany
Imprint
Prestel
Pages
200
Publisher
Prestel
Dimensions
222x287x24
ISBN-13
9783791352923
Product ID
21347475

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