{"product_id":"tony-rosenthal-9780847823161","title":"Tony Rosenthal","description":"\u003cp\u003eTony Rosenthal is probably best known for his landmark  fifteen-foot high CorTen cube  poised on its tip  which stands permanently on Astor Place in downtown Manhattan. Yet at the time it was installed  in 1967  and soon after accepted as the first permanent contemporary outdoor public sculpture by the City of New York  he had recieved many other public commissions  and had also been produceing smaller-scale studio sculpture of distinction for nearly two decades  first in Los Angeles and then in New York. Since the late fifties he has been experimenting in a rather wide range of abstraction  from monolithic structures to more open geometric forms  often with elegant surface detailing concerned with effects of light and movement.  Notable among Rosenthals important commissions has been Cranbrook Ingathering  a maze-like structural environment set on the campus of the Michigan design center; he considers the work his homage to Charles and Ray Eames  Eero Saarinen and other modernist giants of architecture and design who had been fellows at the academy with Rosenthal. Another remarkable work that deeply stirred public attention recently is his moving Holocaust Memorial  made for the Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo; it combines a rather austere  ten-foot high  stainless steel structure and specific texts and imagery on steel \"pages\" memorializing  and personalizing  the loss of the Six Million.  Since 1997 Rosenthal has embarked on a more personal method of creating abstract  yet also at time suggestively figural  sculpture consisting of small  bent stell bars shaped by hand. He has also linked these elements together and combined them almost haphazardly  creating a rich accumulation of powerfully interacting formal units. Undaunted by his advanced years  Rosenthal seems to be just getting started in his recent work  and testing new and challenging directions with vigor and concision. --S.H.  The book contains 69 color plates  an extensive chronology  a list of the sculptors major commissions and public sculptures and a bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67930062979125,"sku":"ByrdShop_0847823164","price":246.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780847823161.jpg?v=1794204088","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/tony-rosenthal-9780847823161","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}