FRANCISCO ZUÑIGA Sculptor [SOLD]

FRANCISCO ZUÑIGA Sculptor

Conversations and Interpretations 

by Sheldon Reich

The University of Arizona Press, Tucson

Hardback with slipcover, first edition 1980. With more than one hundred black and white photographs of the artist, his models, his studio, and his sculptures.

Just as Francisco Zuñiga captures the essence of Mexico’s mestizo heritage in his art, this book captures the essence of the man himself.  Here is Mexico’s greatest living sculptor reflected in his own words, in critical commentary, and in striking dramatic representations of his work.  

“Conversations” distills a series of Reich's exclusive interviews with Zuñiga, never before published.  In frankly discussing his life and art, the sculptor lends fascinating and sometimes controversial insights into his society and cultural milieu.

“Interpretations” offers Sheldon Reich’s stylistic analysis of Zuñiga’s work as it has evolved through various media over a forty-year period.

Included are not only rare prints of projects that have been destroyed, but glimpses of unfinished pieces as well.  Thus embracing past, present, and future.  Francisco Zuñiga: Sculptor is a monument to an artist whose own monuments inspire the admiration of millions.