Nancy Rubins: Fluid Force

Name: Nancy Rubins: Fluid Force
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SKU: 9783969992128
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Nancy Rubins: Fluid Force offers a comprehensive survey of Rubins' five-decade career, showcasing her transformation of everyday and salvaged objects into dynamic, gravity-defying sculptures. From early work with wood and clay to complex assemblies of televisions, boats, and airplane parts, the book explores her innovative investigations of materiality and form. Featuring over 90 photographs and insightful contributions from notable writers, it highlights her unique fusion of art and engineering.
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This book is ideal for enthusiasts of contemporary sculpture, art students, and professionals interested in innovative practices that blend art, engineering, and material exploration.

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I realized that the materials for my work have been around a long time. Before it was in the earth, it was floating as a molecule in outer space—it was part of somebody’s star, or part of somebody’s exploding planet. - Nancy Rubins

Over the past five decades, Nancy Rubins has transformed everyday objects into dynamic, otherworldly assemblages in a multitude of scales, dimensions, and mediums. Fluid Force presents a comprehensive survey of Rubins' gravity-defying practice and invites us to linger on her investigations of materiality—from early explorations of wood and clay to two-dimensional photo-collages, graphite sculptural drawings, and complex sculptures comprising found domestic objects (from televisions to toasters and hair dryers) and large salvaged objects such as boats, mattresses, and airplane parts.

Rubins' fascination with form and matter is unmistakable as she explores and challenges preconceived notions of what sculpture and drawing could and can be. With over 90 photographs and new texts by Phong H. Bui, Eric Shiner, and Yayoi Shionoiri, Fluid Force is a much-needed publication that celebrates Rubins' extensive career and her brilliance in uniting the worlds of art and engineering—a reminder that what appears solid and static is in fact in a constant state of change.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783969992128

Publisher: Steidl Publishers

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 07 December 2023

Country: Germany

Imprint: Steidl Verlag

Illustration: Four-color process; 22 Illustrations, black and white; 70 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

Designed by Gerhard Steidl
Designed by Holger Feroudj
Text by Phong H. Bui
Text by Eric Shiner
Text by Yayoi Shionoiri
Designed by Nancy Rubins
Designed by Erica Mercado

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 205.0mm

Height: 255.0mm

Weight: 720g

Pages: 136

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Born in 1952 in Naples, Texas, Nancy Rubins is a sculptor and installation artist whose large-format sculptures explore the threshold between two- and three-dimensionality. Holding a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of California at Davis, Rubins has installed her monumental sculptures across the United States and Europe, while significant public and private collections hold her work. She has exhibited at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, and the Venice Biennale. Steidl published Rubins' Work in 2012.