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Serra and the Anti-Environment
Letter from Marianne Stockebrand to Clara Weyergraf and Richard Serra, November 28, 1983. Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Archive, Krefeld.
One piece not expressly made for the exhibition was Plate Roll Prop (1969), retitled Corner Pole Prop (1983), for the exhibition in Haus Lange. Letter from Alexander von Berswordt-Wallrabe to Dr. Gerhard Storck, November 23, 1984. Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Archive, Krefeld. For a photograph of the piece installed in the corner of the terrace, see Marianne Stockebrande, Richard Serra (Krefeld: Krefelder Kunstmuseum, 1985), 21.
Richard Serra, “Extended Notes from Sight Point Road,” in Writings, Interviews (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), 171–72.
See Richard Serra, “Richard Serra’s Urban Sculpture” in Writings, Interviews, 131.
Douglas Crimp, “Serra’s Public Sculpture: Redefining Site Specificity” in Rosalind E. Krauss, Richard Serra/Sculpture (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1986), 40–56.
Richard Serra, Richard Serra: Weight and Measure 1992 (London: Tate Gallery Publications; Düsseldorf: Richter Verlag, 1992), 9.
Ibid., 11.
Ibid., 11.
Ibid., 13, 15.
Richard Serra, “Interview by Alfred Pacquement” and “Extended Notes from Sight Point Road,” in Writings, Interviews, 164, 169. Stockebrand writes that Serra considered Mies one of “the most brilliant artists of the century.” (“...da [Serra] er Mies van der Rohe ohnehin zu den brilliantesten Künstlerpersönlichkeiten dieses Jahrhunderts zählt.”) See Stockebrand, Richard Serra, 14. Translation by the authors.
“[W]hen Serra titles this intervention ‘Two 45°-Angles for Mies’ this is by no means without aggression or irony.” Ulrich Reinke, “Kultur aktuell,” Südwestfunk Baden-Baden (January 31, 1985). Translation by the authors.
Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Richard Serra: Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, promotional material (Krefeld, 16 January 1985), 1.
Frampton, “Mies van der Rohe: Avant-Garde and Continuity,” 167.
Gombrich, “Art History and the Social Sciences,” 164.
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