Remembering Richard Serra, the American sculptor whose monumental works conjure a sense of wonder in the world

from The Art Newspaper - International art news and events 7 months ago

One of the sculptor Richard Serra's earliest memories was a moment when, on his fourth birthday, his father took him to the shipyard in San Francisco, close to an undeveloped area that fronted Ocean Beach where they lived, to watch the launching of an enormous tanker...
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Serra's father, Tony Serra, was an emigrant from Majorca and worked as a pipe-fitter during the Second World War, while his mother, Gladys Fineberg, who was Russian Jewish, instilled in him a lifelong love of literature...
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By the time he transferred to UC Santa Barbara, and majored in English literature...
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