160pp., illus. Text in English. As new, clean, tight & bright condition, with bright and crisp dust jacket. Bibliographic Details Title: Writings Publisher: Richter Verlag Publication Date: 2009 Binding: Hardcover EDUARDO CHILLIDA An Excerpt from Eduardo Chillida: Writings Eduardo Chillida (19242002) is among the sculptors who have contributed most decisively to the vocabulary of abstract sculpture, and to its material innovations, in twentieth-century European artalthough he himself envisaged abstraction as simply a truerrealism,as an undistorted account of material properties. Along with clay, stone and concrete, Chillida particularly favored wrought iron, using it to achieve robust sensations of both mass and movement, at once affirming solidity and defying gravity. Chillida's writings, published here for the first time, take the reader into the sculptor's independent-minded musings on the nature of sculpture. These philosophical and theoretical reflections, and the