"ROBERT INDIANA. HARD EDGE". Editions Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York. 2008. Petit in-4 carré, couverture cartonnée photo. 68 pages. Texte en anglais par Adrian Dannatt, illustré de nombreuses reproductions photographiques noir & blanc et couleurs pleine page. Ouvrage réalisé dans le cadre de l'exposition éponyme à la Paul Kasmin Gallery de New York, du 18 Septembre au 1er Novembre 2008. 

 

"LOVE. As can be seen from contemporary photographs of the installation of the first LOVE sculpture in Central Park, the shift from a two-dimensional image to a giant-scale physical object completely transformed the entire project into a heroic declaration of desire, a totemic proclamation of nurture and need, which was now resolutely public and impossible to avoid. The sheer boldness and bigness of this new york turned a snappy graphic signature style into a canonical transformation of sculptural possibilities, minting a new modern sculpture that for the first time dared to spell itself out in real words..."

 

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