A comprehensive study of one of the most versatile artists and acute observers of our time, who fuses art and fashion American artist Sterling Ruby works in a large variety of media, including sculpture, ceramics, painting, and video art. Ruby is influenced by a wide range of sources, including marginalized societies, maximum-security prisons, modernist architecture, artefacts and antiquities, graffiti, waste and consumption, and urban gangs. Through these, he examines the psychological space where individual expression confronts social constraint.
ISBN: | 9780714870434 |
Publication date: | 10th October 2016 |
Author: | Kate Fowle, Franklin Sirmans, Jessica Morgan |
Publisher: | Phaidon Press Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 160 pages |
Series: | Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series |
Genres: |
Individual artists, art monographs |