Main entry:

Pesenti, Allegra.

Title & Author:

Rachel Whiteread drawings / Allegra Pesenti ; with essays by Ann Gallagher and Allegra Pesenti and a visual essay by Rachel Whiteread.

Publication:

Los Angeles : Hammer Museum ; Munich ; New York : DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2010.

Description:

224 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Jan. 31-April 25, 2010, the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, May 22-Aug. 15, 2010, and at the Tate Britain, London, Sept. 8, 2010-Jan. 16, 2011.
Includes bibliographical references.
Like shallow breaths : drawings by Rachel Whiteread / Allegra Pesenti -- Drawing form / Ann Gallagher -- Plates : Tables and chairs ; Floors ; Beds and mattresses ; Baths, plinths, and slabs ; House and stairs ; Doors, windows, doorknobs, and switches ; Holocaust Memorial and bookshelves ; Water tower ; Torso and heads ; Trafalgar Square plinth ; Embankment ; Place (village) ; Postcard studies -- A visual essay / Rachel Whiteread.

Summary:

This elegant volume accompanies the first museum survey of drawings by Rachel Whiteread, tracing her career from the late 1980s to the present. While Whiteread's public works such as House, the monumental cast of a nineteenth-century terraced house in the East End of London that earned her the Turner Prize, Water Tower, which graced the skyline of downtown Germany, and Untitled Monument in Trafalgar Square are renowned, her works on paper have remained largely unknown to the general public. This book explores Whiteread's draftsmanship, a lesser-known yet fundamentally important aspect of the artist's creative process. My drawings are a diary of my work, Whiteread explains, and like the passages in a diary her drawings range from fleeting ideas to laboured reflections. This book sheds light on the distinctive characteristics of her works on paper, such as their variegated textures, the subtle nuances of tone over colored graph paper, and the play of imagery in collaged constructions. It presents exquisite reproductions of Whiteread s drawings, with essays by Allegra Pesenti and Ann Gallagher. A visual essay by Whiteread is a distinguishing feature of the volume, reflecting an installation of found and made objects gathered from various sources. Taken as a parallel to her sculpture or seen as a further dimension of her art, her drawings constitute a significant and defined area of Whiteread s remarkable career, one that deserves close attention and celebration.

ISBN:

9783791350387
3791350382
9783791350158
3791350153

Subject:

Whiteread, Rachel, 1963- Exhibitions.
Whiteread, Rachel, 1963- Expositions.
Whiteread, Rachel, 1963-
Whiteread, Rachel 1963-
Architectural drawing 20th century Exhibitions.
Buildings in art Exhibitions.
Sculpture 20th century Exhibitions.
House furnishings in art Exhibitions.
Dessin d'architecture 20e siècle Expositions.
Constructions dans l'art Expositions.
Ameublement dans l'art Expositions.
Sculpture première 20e siècle Expositions.
Architectural drawing
Buildings in art
House furnishings in art
Sculpture
Zeichnung

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Whiteread, Rachel, 1963-
Gallagher, Ann.
Hammer Museum.
Nasher Sculpture Center.
Tate Britain (Gallery)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 266542
Call No.: BIB 198472
Status: Available