The art of Jeffrey Rubinoff / edited by James Fox.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fox, James, 1982- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rubinoff, Jeffrey, 1945---Criticism and interpretation.

Rubinoff, Jeffrey.

Rubinoff, Jeffrey, 1945-.

Sculpture, Canadian--20th century.

Sculpture, Canadian.

Sculpture, Canadian--21st century.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

256 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Madeira Park, BC : Douglas & McIntyre, [2016]

Summary:

"Jeffrey Rubinoff is one of the great sculptors in steel of the second half of the twentieth century. In the 1970s and '80s he exhibited widely in the United States and Canada alongside Anthony Caro, Mark di Suvero and George Rickey, among others. However, in the early 1990s Rubinoff withdrew from the art world altogether and concentrated on creating an extraordinary sculpture park on Hornby Island. This book is the first major account of his remarkable career. The Art of Jeffrey Rubinoff considers Rubinoff's life, work and ideas from a variety of perspectives. Barry Phipps describes Rubinoff's working methods; James Purdon examines the meanings that derive from Rubinoff's use of steel; Joan Pachner focuses on the formative influence of the abstract Expressionist sculptor David Smith on his work; Maria Tippett examines Rubinoff through the lens of the broader arts scene in postwar Canada; and Aaron Rosen attempts to understand Rubinoff's values and ambitions in light of his Jewish heritage. Other contributing scholars include Alistair Rider, Mark E. Breeze, Tom Stammers, Alexander Massouras, David Lawless and Peter Clarke. The book's foreword is written by the distinguished Yale historian Jay Winter. Drawing on interviews and correspondence with Rubinoff himself, as well as uncatalogued archives and unpublished documents in the artist's possession, The Art of Jeffrey Rubinoff makes available for the very first time a significant quantity of primary material, both textual and visual, for scholars and students of the future."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I Making and Meaning 39

1 Making, Placing, Setting / Barry Phipps Phipps, Barry 41

2 Homesick Ore: Rubinoff, Metal and Sculptural Thought / James Purdon Purdon, James 55

3 "We Fragile Humans": Rubinoff, Witnessing and the Sculptural Encounter / Alistair Rider Rider, Alistair 75

4 Jeffrey Rubinoff and David Smith: A Dialogue in Steel (1969-83) / Joan Pachner Pachner, Joan 93

II Space and Time 115

5 "Drawing in Space": Jeffrey Rubinoff's Series 3 (1983) / James Fox Fox, James 117

6 From Non-Places to Non-Architecture: The Architectural Roots of the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park / Mark E. Breeze Breeze, Mark E. 137

7 Enlightenment Intersections in the Work of Jeffrey Rubinoff / Tom Stammers Stammers, Tom 153

8 Modernist Ruins and the Temporal Landscape of the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park / Alexander Massouras Massouras, Alexander 169

III Nature and Culture 183

9 Rubinoff, Nature and Natural History / David Lawless Lawless, David 185

10 Jeffrey Rubinoff and Canada / Maria Tippett Tippett, Maria 201

11 A Tribe of His Own: Jeffrey Rubinoff's Jewish Identity / Aaron Rosen Rosen, Aaron 217

12 The Ideas of Jeffrey Rubinoff / Peter Clarke Clarke, Peter 229.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-252) and index.

Other Format:

Art of Jeffrey Rubinoff.

ISBN:

9781771621298

177162129X

OCLC:

950057310