Richard Stankiewicz Dies, Pioneer of 'Junk' Sculpture, by Michae Brenson, Obituary, The New York Times, March 29, 1983. Richard Stankiewicz, the American sculptor whose whimsical scrap-iron... Read full biography
Richard Stankiewicz Dies, Pioneer of 'Junk' Sculpture, by Michae Brenson, Obituary, The New York Times, March 29, 1983. Richard Stankiewicz, the American sculptor whose whimsical scrap-iron constructions made him one of the pioneers of ''junk art'' and assemblage, died of cancer Sunday in... Read full biography
Richard Stankiewicz Dies, Pioneer of 'Junk' Sculpture, by Michae Brenson, Obituary, The New York Times, March 29, 1983. Richard Stankiewicz, the American sculptor whose whimsical scrap-iron constructions made him one of the pioneers of ''junk art'' and assemblage, died of cancer Sunday in Worthington, Mass. He was 60 years old. Mr. Stankiewicz established his reputation by taking pipes, nuts, bolts, screws, clockworks and other scrap from junkyards and welding them into carefully ordered... Read full biography
Richard Stankiewicz Dies, Pioneer of 'Junk' Sculpture, by Michae Brenson, Obituary, The New York Times, March 29, 1983. Richard Stankiewicz, the American sculptor whose whimsical scrap-iron constructions made him one of the pioneers of ''junk art'' and assemblage, died of cancer Sunday in Worthington, Mass. He was 60 years old. Mr. Stankiewicz established his reputation by taking pipes, nuts, bolts, screws, clockworks and other scrap from junkyards and welding them into carefully ordered sculptural compositions that both respected the fragmentary, arbitrary character of the materials and transformed them. ''I take material that is already degenerating, flaking and rusting, and then try to make something beautiful of it,'' Mr. Stankiewicz... Read full biography
Richard Stankiewicz Dies, Pioneer of 'Junk' Sculpture, by Michae Brenson, Obituary, The New York Times, March 29, 1983. Richard Stankiewicz, the American sculptor whose whimsical scrap-iron constructions made him one of the pioneers of ''junk art'' and assemblage, died of cancer Sunday in Worthington, Mass. He was 60 years old. Mr. Stankiewicz established his reputation by taking pipes, nuts, bolts, screws, clockworks and other scrap from junkyards and welding them into carefully ordered sculptural compositions that both respected the fragmentary, arbitrary character of the materials and transformed them. ''I take material that is already degenerating, flaking and rusting, and then try to make something beautiful of it,'' Mr. Stankiewicz said in 1958. ''It should hit people over the head and make them ask, 'What is beauty?' ''. Mr. Stankiewicz's sculptures ha... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (74)
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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
American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey
2003
Herskovic, Marika (editor)
372 pages (color)
Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999
Editor, Smith College Museum
307 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being
1995
Fineberg, Jonathan
496 pages (color)
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
Art in the Age of Aquarius, 1955-1970
1992
Seitz, William C
250 pages (color)
Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook (of the Collection)
1991
Cleveland Museum of Art
161 pages
Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945
1991
Hoffman, Katherine
400 pages (color)
Breakthroughs Avant-Garde Artists in Europe & America 1950-1990
1991
Wexner Center, Ohio State U
310 pages (color)
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art
1988
Columbus Museum of Art
271 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition)
1987
Feldman, Edmund Burke
528 pages (color)
A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986
Chetham, Charles; David Grose
312 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
With an Eye to American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Miller, Dorothy C
16 pages
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Selections from Permanent Collection
1984
Chicago, Museum Contemporary
164 pages (color)
Sculpture in America (new and revised edition)
1984
Craven, Wayne
782 pages
Blam, the Explosion of Pop, Minimalism and Performance 1958-1964 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Haskell, Barbara
160 pages
Movements in Art since 1945 New Revised Edition
1984
Lucie-Smith, Edward
288 pages (color)
World Artists 1950-1980
1984
Marks, Claude
912 pages
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
Art at Work The Chase Manhattan Collection
1984
Severinghaus, J Walter
333 pages (color)
American Art Since 1945
1982
Ashton, Dore
224 pages (color)
An American Choice Muriel Kallis Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Lieberman, William (editor)
167 pages (color)
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
The Guggenheim Museum Collection Handbook/ 1900-1980
1980
Barnett, Vivian Endicott
526 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
730 pages
Museum of Fine Arts The American and European Collections
1979
Springfield Library & Museum
216 pages (color)
The New York School The Painters & Sculptors of the Fifties
1978
Sandler, Irving
366 pages (color)
Tenth Street Days The Co-Ops of the 50's (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Bard, Joellan
80 pages
Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
1977
Barr, Alfred H
655 pages
American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources
1977
Ekdahl, Janis
260 pages
The Art of America Since World War II
1976
Glubok, Shirley
48 pages
A Selection of American Art The Skowhegan School 1946-1976
1976
Institute of Contemporary Art
194 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
Bright Stars: American Painting and Sculpture Since1776
1976
Lipman, Jean/Helen M Franc
208 pages (color)
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
American Art Since 1945 From the Collection of MOMA
1975
Legg, Alicia
84 pages (color)
Santa Fe Collects (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Santa Fe Festival of the Arts
64 pages (color)
Poets of the Cities New York and San Francisco 1950-1965 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Dallas Museum of Fine Art
174 pages
A Concise History of Modern Sculpture
1974
Read, Herbert
310 pages (color)
Contemporary Art Exploring It's Roots and Development
1973
Johnson, Charlotte Buel
96 pages (color)
The Albert Pilavin Collection Twentieth-Century American Art II (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Rhode Island School of Design
60 pages
Contemporary Art 1942-72
1972
Sandler, Irving (intro)
479 pages (color)
Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes)
1971
Bell, David
2,139 pages (color)
Icons and Images of the Sixties
1971
Calas, Nicolas and Elena
347 pages
Twentieth Century Art From the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Lieberman, William
139 pages (color)
Traveler's Guide to American Art
1968
Norman, Jane & Theodore
436 pages
The Joys and Sorrows of Recent American Art
1968
Weller, Allen S
185 pages
The Artist in America
1967
Artist in America, Editors
256 pages (color)
Modern American Sculpture
1967
Ashton, Dore
130 pages (color)
Collage: Personalities, Concepts, Techniques
1967
Janis, Harriet/Rudi Blesh
342 pages
American Art Since 1900 A Critical History
1967
Rose, Barbara
320 pages (color)
American Art A Historical Survey
1966
Green, Samuel M
706 pages
Fifty Years of Modern Art 1916-19 (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Henning, Edward B
209 pages (color)
New Art Around the World
1966
Hunter, Sam (chapter on US)
510 pages (color)
Break Up The Core of Modern Art
1965
Kuh, Katherine
136 pages (color)
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
1965
University of Illinois
210 pages
Six Americans (Exhibition catalog)
1964
Arkansas Art Center
16 pages
Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art 1939-1964 (Exhibition catalog)
1964
Baur, John I H
91 pages (color)
Profile: Art and Artists in the USA on the Occasion of 4th Congress ...
1963
International Assoc. of Art
119 pages
What Is American in American Art
1963
Lipman, Jean (editor)
180 pages (color)
Forty Artists under Forty From the Whitney Museum of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1962
Goodrich, Lloyd/Edward Bryant
48 pages (color)
American Art Since 1950 A Loan Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)