Product Description

In a world falling to pieces, a new breed of art objects is capturing its fractured allure in three dimensions. UNMONUMENTAL features recent work by thirty contemporary sculptors at the vanguard of their craft, selected by one of contemporary art's top curatorial teams. The sculptures in UNMONUMENTAL are forerunners in a major new artistic development. They are powerful but patently un-heroic; assembled from bits of the world at large, they are sardonic metaphors for our time. The artists featured in the book range from the just-emerged (Tobias Buche, Claire Fontaine, Gedi Sibony) to the internationally renowned (John Bock, Isa Genzken, Rachel Harrison). UNMONUMENTAL is generously illustrated with large full-color photographs of the works, most of which have never before been published. UNMONUMENTAL was created in conjunction with the inaugural exhibition of the New Museum of Contemporary Art's landmark new building, designed by Seijima + Nishazawa / SANAA, on the Bowery in New York.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #345492 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

About the Author
RICHARD FLOOD is Chief Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.
LAURA HOPTMAN is Senior Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.
MASSIMILIANO GIONI is Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, and Artistic Director at Fondazione Trussardi, Milan.
TREVOR SMITH is Curator-in-Residence at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

Customer Reviews

A Monumental Book
The book came to me in perfect condition and the content, well, anyone interested in the most current and contemporary sculpture today should have this book. Some of the artists will be familiar, some not, but all are doing quality work edging along the boundaries of what we call sculpture today.