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Scott Burton (June 23, 1939 – December 29, 1989) was an American sculptor and performance artist best known for his large-scale furniture sculptures in granite and bronze.
Scott Burton (June 23, 1939 – December 29, 1989) was an American sculptor and performance artist best known for his large-scale furniture sculptures in granite and bronze.
American artist Scott Burton (1939–1989) made what he described as “sculpture in love with furniture.” Highlighting the breadth of Burton’s innovative practice as a sculptor, performance artist, and public artist, this will be the most comprehensive exhibition in the United States since his untimely death of AIDS-related illness in 1989.
Feb 24, 2017 · From the early 60s until his death in 1989, Scott Burton was one of these new artists, a true Renaissance man. First gaining notoriety through critical theory and art criticism, Burton served as a writer and editor for two of the oldest and most esteemed art publications, ARTnews, from 1965 until 1972, and Art in America, from 1974 until 1976.
Designed in 1988 and completed posthumously in 1991, Bench and Table is one realization of Burton’s conception of a truly public and social art. Its geometric yet familiar form allows visitors to choose how they approach the work.
Jan 1, 1990 · Scott Burton, an American sculptor whose work balanced stubbornly and elegantly between art and furniture while evolving into a new kind of public sculpture, died of AIDS on Friday at Cabrini...
Burton admired the Russian Constructivist artists who, earlier in the century, had linked innovative forms to a concern with their practical social applications. The natural shapes of these chairs, and their beautiful surface—variously rough and smooth, and veined in gray and white—inject aesthetic pleasure into their obvious usefulness.
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