Conceptual-installation artist Haim Steinbach was born in Rehovot, Israel in 1944. He now lives and works in New York City where he pursues his intellectualization of art. His shelf sculptures are... Read full biography
Conceptual-installation artist Haim Steinbach was born in Rehovot, Israel in 1944. He now lives and works in New York City where he pursues his intellectualization of art. His shelf sculptures are devices of endless variety, but their parameters are fixed. Typically, Steinbach chooses banal objects... Read full biography
Conceptual-installation artist Haim Steinbach was born in Rehovot, Israel in 1944. He now lives and works in New York City where he pursues his intellectualization of art. His shelf sculptures are devices of endless variety, but their parameters are fixed. Typically, Steinbach chooses banal objects from everyday life and arranges them on plastic-laminated, triangular-wedge shelving units. The interior angles of the triangular units are constant90, 50, and 40 degreesand they always relate to the... Read full biography
Conceptual-installation artist Haim Steinbach was born in Rehovot, Israel in 1944. He now lives and works in New York City where he pursues his intellectualization of art. His shelf sculptures are devices of endless variety, but their parameters are fixed. Typically, Steinbach chooses banal objects from everyday life and arranges them on plastic-laminated, triangular-wedge shelving units. The interior angles of the triangular units are constant90, 50, and 40 degreesand they always relate to the objects on top through volume and color. Steinbach has proposed parallels between the structure of his works and game boards, the sequence of pitches in musical scales, and the arrangement of goods on department-store shelves. "Ultra red #2," a... Read full biography
Conceptual-installation artist Haim Steinbach was born in Rehovot, Israel in 1944. He now lives and works in New York City where he pursues his intellectualization of art. His shelf sculptures are devices of endless variety, but their parameters are fixed. Typically, Steinbach chooses banal objects from everyday life and arranges them on plastic-laminated, triangular-wedge shelving units. The interior angles of the triangular units are constant90, 50, and 40 degreesand they always relate to the objects on top through volume and color. Steinbach has proposed parallels between the structure of his works and game boards, the sequence of pitches in musical scales, and the arrangement of goods on department-store shelves. "Ultra red #2," a typical Steinbach shelf sculpture, features four ruby-golden lava lamps, nine russet cooking pots, and six digital alarm clocks with blinkin... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (23)
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The Art Prophets: The Artists, Dealers, and Tastemakers Who Shook the Art World
2011
Polsky, Richard
262 pages
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Sculpture From the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
2005
Janovy, Karen O. (Editor); David Cateforis (Intro)
246 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999
Editor, Smith College Museum
307 pages
Art at the Turn of the Millennium
1999
Larsen, Lars et all
561 pages (color)
The Dakis Joannou Collection
1996
Deitch, Jeffrey
302 pages (color)
Art of the Postmodern Era From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s
1996
Sandler, Irving
636 pages (color)
Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being
1995
Fineberg, Jonathan
496 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Contemporary Art 1965-1990
1992
Kurtz, Bruce D
256 pages (color)
Modernism in Dispute Art Since the Forties
1992
Wood, Paul (others)
267 pages (color)
Power:Its Myths and Mores in American Art 1961-1991 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Day, Holliday T
159 pages (color)
Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945
1991
Hoffman, Katherine
400 pages (color)
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
Affinities and Intuitions Gerald S Elliott Collection of Contemporary Art
1990
Benezra, Neal (editor)
312 pages (color)
Word As Image American Art 1960-1990 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Bowman, Russell/Dean Sobel
172 pages (color)
NY Art Now The Saatchi Collection
1988
Cameron, Dan
250 pages (color)
The Binational American Art of the Late 80s (Exhibition catalog)