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Summary:

Rachel Whiteread has created some of the most remarkable and resonant public sculptures of recent years. House (now demolished) cast in concrete the interior of a terraced house in London's East End. Holocaust Memorial is a moving memorial in Vienna to the victims of the holocaust in Austria. Yet she also frequently works on a domestic scale, casting in plaster and resin the spaces inside, around and beneath furniture, floors and staircases. Her art is a uniquely poetic response to the everyday, and to the haunting themes of memory and mortality. In this video profile Rachel Whiteread speaks about the ideas that prompted a number of her best-known sculptures, including Ghost, her first cast of the space inside a complete room, and Monument, which established a shimmering presence in London's Trafalgar Square during the summer of 2001. She also outlines the complexities of creating her often technically challenging works, and reflects on the controversies that they have sometimes set off.

Contributors:

Whiteread, Rachel, 1963- , interviewee

Illuminations (Firm) , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

In English.

Included Works:

In series: Eye (London, England)

Subjects:

Whiteread, Rachel, 1963- — Interviews

Sculptors — England — Interviews

Art, Modern

Art, British

Whiteread, Rachel, 1963-

Sculptors

England

Genres:

Interviews

Documentary television programs

Online media

Internet videos

General Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed January 02, 2020).
Streaming media.
Restricted to the University of North Texas System.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (27 mins.))

Digital Characteristics:

video file

Call Numbers:

Online Video

OCLC Numbers:

1135597600

Other Control Numbers:

4240436 (source: VaAlASP)
[Unknown Type]: ASP4240436/avon