David Smith
By: Joan Pachner
Series: Phaidon focus : essential introductions to modern artists; Phaidon focus
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9780714861562
Subjects: Sculptors; American Sculpture; Criticism and interpretation; Biography
Description: One of the pre-eminent American sculptors of the twentieth century, Smith was a powerful innovator. He introduced the industrial process of welding, and was able to manipulate metal into extraordinarily imaginative and varied compositions, using it literally to "draw in space." Pachner also sheds valuable light on Smith's prolific output of drawing, sketching, writing and photography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 145).
Table of contents: title: Risks and rewards; title: The early years; title: The 1930s. Photography in the 1930s ; Welding ; Medals for dishonor; title: War and its aftermath : the 1940s. Helmholtzian landscape ; Photographing sculpture; title: Maturity : the 1950s. Drawings and sprays ; The working process; title: Full flower : 1960-5. Voltri ; Cubi ; The fields; title: Chronology; title: List of works.