The Pliable Plane: The Wall as Surface in Sculpture and Architecture, 1945–75 Edition:Paperback Padua and Venice

Padua and Venice

- Ulf Erdmann Ziegler

this catalogue raisonné charts two decades of Starkey’s influential image-making

he asks: what is existentially at stake today in the making and viewing of photographs

and perhaps even plumb the depths of something unknowable about both the sitter and the photographer

The Pliable Plane: The Wall as Surface in Sculpture and Architecture, 1945–75 Edition:Paperback Padua and VeniceIn The Pliable Plane, curator and historian Penelope Curtis traces the ways sculpture infiltrated architectural thought over the post war period. Her study identifies the wall as a particular locus of creative thinking a surface which produces both continuity and separation, and which similarly unites and distinguishes the two disciplines. Surveying a series of walls carved, cast, applied, imagined, and even conceptual in such places as bomb shelters,