The Art of Jeffrey Rubinoff
Jeffrey Rubinoff is one of the great sculptors in steel of the second half of the twentieth century. In the 1970s and '80s he exhibited widely in the United States and Canada alongside Anthony Caro, Mark di Suvero and George Rickey, among others. However, in the early 1990s Rubinoff withdrew from the art world altogether and concentrated on creating an extraordinary sculpture park on Hornby Island. This book is the first major account of his remarkable career.

The Art of Jeffrey Rubinoff considers Rubinoff's life, work and ideas from a variety of perspectives. Barry Phipps describes Rubinoff's working methods; James Purdon examines the meanings that derive from Rubinoff's use of steel; Joan Pachner focuses on the formative influence of the abstract Expressionist sculptor David Smith on his work; Maria Tippett examines Rubinoff through the lens of the broader arts scene in postwar Canada; and Aaron Rosen attempts to understand Rubinoff's values and ambitions in light of his Jewish heritage. Other contributing scholars include Alistair Rider, Mark E. Breeze, Tom Stammers, Alexander Massouras, David Lawless and Peter Clarke. The book's foreword is written by the distinguished Yale historian Jay Winter.

Drawing on interviews and correspondence with Rubinoff himself, as well as uncatalogued archives and unpublished documents in the artist's possession, The Art of Jeffrey Rubinoff makes available for the very first time a significant quantity of primary material, both textual and visual, for scholars and students of the future.
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The Art of Jeffrey Rubinoff
Jeffrey Rubinoff is one of the great sculptors in steel of the second half of the twentieth century. In the 1970s and '80s he exhibited widely in the United States and Canada alongside Anthony Caro, Mark di Suvero and George Rickey, among others. However, in the early 1990s Rubinoff withdrew from the art world altogether and concentrated on creating an extraordinary sculpture park on Hornby Island. This book is the first major account of his remarkable career.

The Art of Jeffrey Rubinoff considers Rubinoff's life, work and ideas from a variety of perspectives. Barry Phipps describes Rubinoff's working methods; James Purdon examines the meanings that derive from Rubinoff's use of steel; Joan Pachner focuses on the formative influence of the abstract Expressionist sculptor David Smith on his work; Maria Tippett examines Rubinoff through the lens of the broader arts scene in postwar Canada; and Aaron Rosen attempts to understand Rubinoff's values and ambitions in light of his Jewish heritage. Other contributing scholars include Alistair Rider, Mark E. Breeze, Tom Stammers, Alexander Massouras, David Lawless and Peter Clarke. The book's foreword is written by the distinguished Yale historian Jay Winter.

Drawing on interviews and correspondence with Rubinoff himself, as well as uncatalogued archives and unpublished documents in the artist's possession, The Art of Jeffrey Rubinoff makes available for the very first time a significant quantity of primary material, both textual and visual, for scholars and students of the future.
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The Art of Jeffrey Rubinoff

The Art of Jeffrey Rubinoff

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Jeffrey Rubinoff is one of the great sculptors in steel of the second half of the twentieth century. In the 1970s and '80s he exhibited widely in the United States and Canada alongside Anthony Caro, Mark di Suvero and George Rickey, among others. However, in the early 1990s Rubinoff withdrew from the art world altogether and concentrated on creating an extraordinary sculpture park on Hornby Island. This book is the first major account of his remarkable career.

The Art of Jeffrey Rubinoff considers Rubinoff's life, work and ideas from a variety of perspectives. Barry Phipps describes Rubinoff's working methods; James Purdon examines the meanings that derive from Rubinoff's use of steel; Joan Pachner focuses on the formative influence of the abstract Expressionist sculptor David Smith on his work; Maria Tippett examines Rubinoff through the lens of the broader arts scene in postwar Canada; and Aaron Rosen attempts to understand Rubinoff's values and ambitions in light of his Jewish heritage. Other contributing scholars include Alistair Rider, Mark E. Breeze, Tom Stammers, Alexander Massouras, David Lawless and Peter Clarke. The book's foreword is written by the distinguished Yale historian Jay Winter.

Drawing on interviews and correspondence with Rubinoff himself, as well as uncatalogued archives and unpublished documents in the artist's possession, The Art of Jeffrey Rubinoff makes available for the very first time a significant quantity of primary material, both textual and visual, for scholars and students of the future.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781771621298
Publisher: Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd.
Publication date: 03/14/2017
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 7.10(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

James Fox is an art historian and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He has published widely on twentieth-century art. He is the author of British Art and the First World War, 1914–1924 (Cambridge UniversityPress, 2015), and is currently writing a major book entitled The Meaning of Colour (Penguin-Random House).

Table of Contents

List of Figures 8

Acknowledgements 11

Notes on Contributors 15

Foreword Jay Winter 19

Introduction James Fox 21

I Making and Meaning 39

1 Making, Placing, Setting Barry Phipps 41

2 Homesick Ore: Rubinoff, Metal and Sculptural Thought James Purdon 55

3 "We Fragile Humans": Rubinoff, Witnessing and the Sculptural Encounter Alistair Rider 75

4 Jeffrey Rubinoff and David Smith: A Dialogue in Steel (1969-83) Joan Pachner 93

II Space and Time 115

5 "Drawing in Space": Jeffrey Rubinoff's Series 3 (1983) James Fox 117

6 From Non-Places to Non-Architecture: The Architectural Roots of the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park Mark E. Breeze 137

7 Enlightenment Intersections in the Work of Jeffrey Rubinoff Tom Stammers 153

8 Modernist Ruins and the Temporal Landscape of the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park Alexander Massouras 169

III Nature and Culture 183

9 Rubinoff, Nature and Natural History David Lawless 185

10 Jeffrey Rubinoff and Canada Maria Tippett 201

11 A Tribe of His Own: Jeffrey Rubinoff's Jewish Identity Aaron Rosen 217

12 The Ideas of Jeffrey Rubinoff Peter Clarke 229

Endnotes 241

Index 253

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