Tony Rosenthal
By: Edward Albee, Sam Hunter
Contributors: Rosenthal, Tony, 1914-; Hunter, Sam, 1923-
Publisher: Rizzoli; Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: Rosenthal, Tony, -- 1914-
Description: "Tony Rosenthal is probably best known for his landmark, fifteen-foot high CorTen cube, poised on its tip, which stands prominently on Astor Place in downtown Manhattan. Yet at the time it was installed, in 1967, and soon after accepted as the first permanent contemporary outdoor public sculpture by the City of New York, he had received many other public commissions, and had also been producing smaller-scale studio sculpture of distinction for nearly two decades, first in Los Angeles and then in New York. Since the late fifties he has been experimenting in a rather wide range of abstraction, from monolithic structures to more open geometric forms, often with elegant surface detailing concerned with effects of light and movement." "The book contains 69 color plates, an extensive chronology, a list of the sculptor's major commissions and public sculptures and a bibliography."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 76-79)