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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
David Smith 1906-1965
| Editor | Carmen Giménez |
| Publisher | Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía |
| Year | 1996 |
| Cover | Paperback with flaps |
| Language | Spanish, English |
| ISBN | 978-84-8026-061-9 |
| Pages | 352 |
| Weight | 1846 g |
| Illustrations | with num. ills |
| More | |
| Contributors | Michael Brenson, Francisco Calvo Serraller et al. |
| Type of book | Exhib'publication |
| Museum / Place | Madrid |
| Article ID | art-11015 |
David Smith (1906-1965) is considered the most representative sculptor in North American Abstract Expressionism.
Smith's work shows, until the fifties, influences by Joan Miró, Alexander Calder and Alberto Giacometti in the iconographic and in the processes and techniques he uses. On the other hand, Smith quickly finds references for his Amerindian primitive art sculpture in hand-made and religious crafts as well as in the models and industrial materials. With the Tanktotem and Sentinels series he begins his shift towards a sculpture based on the principles of monumentality, verticality and a balance between weight and volume. With Cubic and Zig as well as the Voltri, Smith insists on exploring the behaviour of sculpture in space.
The publication seeks to explain "the nuclei of force that determined the sculptor's artistic evolution" in the words of Carmen Giménez, curator of the exhibition. It brings together works by Smith, made between 1933 and 1965 and a selection of photographs by Ugo Mulas showing the artist at his studio.
