Robert Therrien

This is the first major book on the contemporary artist Robert Theirrien and features his most important pieces of work. Known primarily as a sculptor, Therrien takes ordinary objects and makes them unfamiliar, removing functionality in order to reveal the potential metaphoric associations of the object. For Therrien, the act of art-making is fundamentally about looking at something from a different perspective, and enticing viewers to do the same. Therrien's one-man exhibition of sculptures is opening in May at Gagosian in New York City and will remain open all summer.

Robert Therrien lives in Los Angeles and is represented in major museum collections internationally. He is known primarily as a sculptor, although he has worked in painting, drawing, printmaking, and photography. Norman Bryson is a Professor in the Department of Visual Arts, University of California San Diego. An art historian and theorist, Bryson has published widely in the areas of eighteenth-century art history, critical theory, and contemporary art. Margit Rowell is an American curator. She retired as chief curator of drawing at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2002. She has published several books of contemporary art.