Richard Deacon

Richard Deacon
ISBN: 9780714839493
Publication Date: 22 May 2000

Awarded the Turner Prize in 1987, Richard Deacon has occupied the foreground of British sculpture since the early 1980s and continues to be an artist of international significance, fulfilling major public sculpture commissions around the world. His virtuoso constructions in wood, metal and plastic range in scale from the domestic to the monumental; they loop and curve across space like three-dimensional drawings, or hover on the floor like great drops of liquid.

he new edition of this monograph has been updated to include over fifty additional pages documenting the artist's work since 1995, including a major retrospective at the Tate Gallery, Liverpool, in 1999. The update essay by Penelope Curtis, Head of Programmes at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, examines new directions in Deacon's most recent work. British curator and critic Jon Thompson examines Deacon's work in relation to language; the artist discusses the contexts of place and space with Italian scholar Pier Luigi Tazzi; American art critic Peter Schjeldahl reveals the complexities of a single sculpture.

Deacon's selected text, by anthropologist Mary Douglas, is on dirt 'as matter out of place'. The subjects of Deacon's writing range from Rilke's poetry to the car as public sculpture; he contributes a new text, 'In Praise of Television'.

About the Author

Jon Thompson is a British artist, teacher, writer and curator. He was Head of Fine Arts at Goldsmith's College, London (1970-92) and is currently Head of Fine Art Studies at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, Netherlands. He co-curated with Greg Hilty the exhibition 'Gravity and Grace: The Changing Condition of Sculpture' in 1993 at the Hayward Gallery, London. Pier Luigi Tazzi is an art critic and curator based in Florence.

Formerly a lecturer at the University ...