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Title
Hand
Catching
Lead
,
film
still
.
Creator
Serra, Richard (American sculptor, born 1939)
Date
1968
Cultural Context
American
North American
Style/Period
Process art
Theme
Film stills
Filmstrips
Film (performing arts)
Motion pictures (visual works)
Processes
Motion
Time
Rhythm
Lead (metal)
Metal
Figurative art
Figures (representations)
Hands (animal or human components)
Wrists (animal or human components)
Fingers (animal or human components)
Arms (animal or human components)
Subject
Film stills
Motion pictures
Processes & techniques
Time
Falling
Metals
Hands
Fingers
Body parts
Locomotion
Human locomotion
Description
"This
3-minute
30-second
film
,
like
others
produced
by
Serra
in the
same
year
,
related
to a
famous
'verb
list'
which
he
compiled
in
1967-8
. The
verb
involved
in this
instance
is
'to
grasp'
but the
list
also
included
'to
roll
, to
crease
, to
fold
, to
store
, to
bend
, to
shorten
, to
twist
, to
dapple
, to
crumple
, to
shave'
and
so
on
(see
Richard
Serra
,
Writings/
Interviews
,
Chicago
,
1994
,
pp.3-4)
.
Such
pragmatic
instructions
informed
much
of
Serra's
process-oriented
art
of the
period.
"
(Caption
,
p.153)
; "In
December
1968
Robert
Morris
organized
an
important
exhibition
under
the
'Anti
Form'
aegis
called
'9
at
Castelli's'
in the
warehouse
of
Leo
Castelli's
gallery
.
Although
[Eva]
Hesse
was
included
, the
successes
of this
exhibition
were
Richard
Serra
and
Bruce
Nauman
,
whose
works
explored
relationships
to their
bodies
that were
more
mechanistic
and
cerebral
.
Serra's
use
of
industrial
materials
to
carry
out
actions
such
as
rolling
,
folding
, and
splashing
drew
on the
working-class
industrial
roots
he
shared
with
Carl
Andre
,
exhibiting
a
pronounced
masculinist
ethos
. In
Casting
,
carried
out
in
situ
at
Castelli's
,
Serra
threw
molten
lead
into the
angled
junction
between
the
floor
and
wall
of the
space
,
pulling
the
resultant
castings
away
when
they
hardened
and
repeating
the
action
to
produce
a
series
of
'waves'
.
[…]
Time
was an
active
principle
in
Serra's
work
and he
therefore
made
several
short
films
such
as
Hand
Catching
Lead
(1968)
, in
which
repeated
images
of a
hand
attempting
to
catch
a
falling
piece
of
lead
create
a
hypnotic
rhythm
,
making
the
spectator
conscious
of the
filmic
process.
"
(Excerpts
,
pp.152-153)
Material
Metal
Lead (metal)
Technique
Filmmaking
Work Type
Film stills
Motion pictures
Source
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.153, fig.77)
Rights
© ARS, NY, and DACS, London, 2000.
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
827-44.jpg
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