Hand Catching Lead, film still.
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Title |
Hand Catching Lead, film still. |
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Creator |
Serra, Richard (American sculptor, born 1939) |
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Date |
1968 |
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Cultural Context |
American
North American |
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Style/Period |
Process art |
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Subject |
Film stills
Motion pictures
Time
Falling
Metals
Hands |
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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 Castellis' 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) |
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Material |
Metal
Lead (metal) |
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Technique |
Filmmaking |
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Work Type |
Film stills
Motion pictures |
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Source |
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.153, fig.77) |
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Rights |
© ARS, NY, and DACS, London, 2000. |
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Digital Publisher |
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center |
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Format |
image/jpeg |
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Digital File Name |
VRC 827-44.jpg |
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Rating |
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