Two Books: Richard Serra: Writings (Trade paperback) and Richard Serra (hardcover) October Files edited by Hal Foster.
Richard Serra is considered by many to be the most important
sculptor of the postwar period. The essays in this volume cover the
complete span of Serra's work to datefrom his first experiments with
materials and processes through his early films and site works to his
current series of "torqued ellipses." There is a special emphasis on
those moments when Serra extended aesthetic convention and/or challenged
political authority, as in the famous struggle with the General
Services Administration over the site-specific piece Tilted Arc.