Rachel Whiteread
by
Ann Gallagher (Editor); Molly Donovan (Editor)
Accompanying a major retrospective at Tate Britain, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Saint Louis Art Museum, this book explores a range of themes in Rachel Whiteread's remarkable practice, from childhood memory to the horrors of the Holocaust. Rachel Whiteread is known for her psychologically charged works that use negative space to conjure feelings of isolation, domesticity, alienation, and personal and public history. This book showcases all of Whiteread's major works over the past thirty years, from her early Ghost--in which she virtually turned a small London flat inside out--to her recent Cabin--a similarly constructed concrete cabin on New York City's Governor's Island.
Call Number: NB497.W54 A4 2018
ISBN: 9783791357355
Publication Date: 2018-05-22
Rachel Whiteread Drawings
by
Allegra Presenti; Ann Gallagher (Contribution by); Rachel Whiteread (Contribution by)
This book of the landmark Whiteread exhibition marks a crucial point in Whiteread's career - this is the first time she has allowed her drawings to be so openly displayed since the nearly nineties, before she became the world-renowned artist she is now. Since a residency in Berlin in 1992-3 when she developed her drawing she has often attached a label to the back of her artwork that read 'It is Rachel Whiteread's expressed wish that none of her drawings should be exhibited alongside her sculptures.' She views her drawings as personal, and they are fundamental to the development of her famous sculptures.
Call Number: NC242.W54 A4 2010
ISBN: 9783791350387
Publication Date: 2010-02-01
Rachel Whiteread: Embankment
by
Catherine Wood; Gordon Burn
"To make a sculpture in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern is an enormous challenge. The space is like no other-gargantuan and enveloping. I hope to challenge the space by developing a degree of intimacy, which somehow relates to all our lives." -Rachel Whiteread The internationally renowned sculptor Rachel Whiteread is the latest artist to take on the challenge of Tate Modern's vast Turbine Hall. Whiteread is an appropriate choice, as some of her best-known works have seen her engaged in a dialogue with architecture and public space. Her first large-scale public project, House (1992) was a concrete cast of a 19th-century row house in the East End of London that during the relatively short period of its existence became an international icon. This unique book follows the creative process of Whiteread's installation in the Turbine Hall from inception through completion, and is illustrated throughout.
Call Number: NB497.W54 A4 2005
ISBN: 9781854375711
Publication Date: 2006-03-14
The Art of Rachel Whiteread
by
Chris Townsend
Based upon a practice of inverted casting - making space tangible - Whiteread's work offers both intimate and public meditations on vital questions of history, memory and social change. But these are also artworks with profound and carefully weighed formal concerns and an affiliation to the critical issues of sculpture raised throughout the twentieth century. Often surrounded by controversy, Whiteread's work is, perhaps, so provoking because it so successfully melds artistic and historical issues. Out of the solidification of space Whiteread creates an archive that compacts and makes legible those intangibles that comprise so much of ordinary life: lost memories and stilled voices. Whiteread's work is appraised both in terms of its relationship to art history and its social and political impact, and examined for possible theoretical approaches through which we may better understand this most complex and challenging of contemporary artists.
Call Number: N6797.W46 A779 2004
ISBN: 0500285047
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
RW: Rachel Whiteread
by
Charlotte Mullins
Rachel Whiteread solidifies space. Employing materials that include concrete, plaster, resin and rubber to mould not the objects themselves but the areas within or around them, she has single-handedly expanded the parameters of contemporary sculpture.