Negative Space

A bold new spatial perspective on modern sculpture, with 800 color images of work by artists including Henry Moore, Lygia Clark, Anish Kapoor, and Ana Mendieta. This monumental, richly illustrated volume from ZKM | Karlsruhe approaches modern sculpture from a spatial perspective, interpreting it though contour, emptiness, and levitation rather than the conventional categories of unbroken volume, mass, and gravity. It examines works by dozens of twentieth- and twenty-first-century artists, including Hans Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Lygia Clark, Anish Kapoor, Olafur Eliasson, Ana Mendieta, Fujiko Nakaya, Tomás Saraceno, and Alicja Kwade. The large-scale book contains over 800 color images.

edited by Peter Weibel

Preface 7 Negative Space in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Theses 13 On Some Basic Principles of Spatial Sculptures 19 I Signature Works 49 II Mathematical Models 83 III Planar Sculptures 165 IV Linear Sculptures 221 V Spatial Constructions 327 VI Suspended Sculptures 395 VII Shadow Spaces and Sculptures 483 VIII Mirror Spaces and Sculptures 511 IX Virtual Spaces and Spatial Illusions 571 X Shapes of the Void 617 List of Works 680