Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture

New York: Rizzoli, 2009. Hardcover. VG. Color pictorial boards, green and color illus. dust jacket, 680 pp., many color illus.; weighs nearly 10 lbs. "This huge book -- the largest on contemporary sculpture yet to appear -- is itself an object. The sequence of nearly 700 pages creates, as its title suggests, an artistic view of the future.... Unlike other contemporary art, the work of sculpture never simply represents a concept or a metaphor. ... Though the objects are laid out like mysterious archaeological artifacts, they suggest traces of future worlds as much as they reflect the weird substance of the present. They are presented as if the reader was, in fact, a visitor from another planet and the objects here displayed constitute the monumental evidence of our lives. ... Published in conjunction with a two-part exhibition at the new Saatchi Gallery in London." (dj).