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Article: Richard Deacon: Marian Goodman Gallery.(NEW YORK)
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- Artforum International
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- November 1, 2004
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There's a kind of sculpture that makes some people feel like wusses--an art of resistant materials, mighty force, dangerous tools--but there's always an audience for it, because it makes other people feel like titans. Of course that's not the only reason; tough sculpture can have all sorts of formal appeal. But surely a part of its attraction is an excitement about, or an identification with, the brute ability to make such work. There are other kinds of sculpture, naturally, and the post-Minimalists in particular were serious about alternatives, for example in the tactile methods and images of Eva Hesse. Later artists like Robert Gober, too, put kinks in sculptural ...