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Richard Serra, Sculptor of Monumental Steel Works, Dead at 85
His jarring, site-specific works made him a landmark figure of the minimalist movement.
One of the most celebrated figures of the minimalist generation, Serra made site-specific, monumental structures that evoke rusted industrial metals, jutting out of the ground and seemingly abandoned, or archeological sites that swallow and beguile onlookers. To experience the entirety of some of his objects, viewers have to dawdle around and through them, crane their necks, or move farther away, forcing anyone who cares to actively confront the rusty-looking husks. Tilted Arc, erected in 1981, aggravated office workers in lower Manhattan, who found the slightly curved steel artwork to be an ugly and dangerous object.
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