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Haim Steinbach

Haim Steinbach (Born 1944) is active/lives in New York.  Haim Steinbach is known for Sculptor-constructions, installation.

Conceptual-installation artist Haim Steinbach was born in Rehovot, Israel in 1944. He now lives and works in New York City where he pursues his intellectualization of art.

His shelf sculptures are devices of endless variety, but their parameters are fixed. Typically, Steinbach chooses banal objects from everyday life and arranges them on plastic-laminated, triangular-wedge shelving units. The interior angles of the triangular units are constant90, 50, and 40 degreesand they always relate to the objects on top through volume and color. Steinbach has proposed parallels between the structure of his works and game boards, the sequence of pitches in musical scales, and the arrangement of goods on department-store shelves.

"Ultra red #2," a typical Steinbach shelf sculpture, features four ruby-golden lava lamps, nine russet cooking pots, and six digital alarm clocks with blinking scarlet readouts. Just as the lava lamps and clocks continuously mutate, so, too, "Ultra red #2" r   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2696 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Haim Steinbach

   Publications  Book References:  23
Magazine References:  5

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5 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Haim Steinbach
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art in America Review of Exhibitions October 2004 Editors, Art in America No
ARTFORUM Infotainment: Thomas Lawson on Medi October 2004 Lawson, Thomas Yes
ARTFORUM Marx to Sharks April 2003 Crow, Thomas Yes
ARTFORUM Haim Steinbach talks to Tim Griffin April 2003 Griffin, Tim Yes
ARTFORUM Time Capsules 1986-1990 April 2003 Rimanelli, David Yes
23 Book References for Haim Steinbach
Year Author Title Pages Color
2011 Polsky, Richard The Art Prophets: The Artists, Dealers, and Tastemakers Who Shook the Art World 262 No
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2005 Janovy, Karen O. (Editor); David Cateforis (Intro) Sculpture From the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 246 Yes
2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition) 1512 No
1999 Editor, Smith College Museum Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum 307 No
1999 Larsen, Lars et all Art at the Turn of the Millennium 561 Yes
1996 Deitch, Jeffrey The Dakis Joannou Collection 302 Yes
1996 Sandler, Irving Art of the Postmodern Era From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s 636 Yes
1995 Fineberg, Jonathan Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being 496 Yes
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1992 Kurtz, Bruce D Contemporary Art 1965-1990 256 Yes
1992 Wood, Paul (others) Modernism in Dispute Art Since the Forties 267 Yes
1991 Day, Holliday T Power:Its Myths and Mores in American Art 1961-1991
(Exhibition catalog)
159 Yes
1991 Hoffman, Katherine Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945 400 Yes
1991 Wheeler, Daniel Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present 344 Yes
1990 Benezra, Neal (editor) Affinities and Intuitions Gerald S Elliott Collection of Contemporary Art 312 Yes
1990 Bowman, Russell/Dean Sobel Word As Image American Art 1960-1990
(Exhibition catalog)
172 Yes
1988 Cameron, Dan NY Art Now The Saatchi Collection 250 Yes
1988 Fairbrother, Trevor (others) The Binational American Art of the Late 80s
(Exhibition catalog)
226 Yes
1987 Frank, Peter/Michael McKenzie New, Used and Improved Art for the 80's 159 Yes
1986 Bois, Yve-Alain Endgame Reference & Simulation/Painting & Sculpture 115 Yes
1986 Cameron, Dan Art and It's Double Panorama of Art in New York 149 Yes
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