Richard Serra (October Files)

Rating:
Summary: little treasure
Review: A wonderful little book to get you looking at Serra's work in a critical fashion. I haven't read all the essays just yet, but so far they've been quite good. A priori art history knowledge required, but none about Serra's work. Serra is certainly one of the greatest artists working today, so to have a little companion like this makes his work all the more interesting.

Rating:
Summary: an excellent compilation
Review: The Library Journal review above makes this book sound terrifyingly difficult. In fact, if you're the kind of person interested in buying a critical work on Serra, you're probably "up" enough to read this with ease. It's a loose collection of interviews, criticism and essays, including what I think is the best piece I've read on Serra yet, by Krauss. Not too much prior knowledge of contemporary art history is assumed, and the book is thankfully light on defining genres and sub-sub-genres in which to put Serra's work.