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Tony Rosenthal by Sam Hunter, Edward Albee and Trudie Grace Published by Rizzoli, January 2001 First Edition 90 pages ISBN-10: ‎ 0847823164 ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0847823161 ISBN: 9780847823161 Black boards stamped in gold Tony Rosenthal is best known for Alamo, 1967, his landmark, fifteen-foot high CorTen Steel cube, poised on its tip, which stands permanently on Astor Place in downtown Manhattan. Yet at the time it was installed, in 1967, and soon after accepted as the first permanent contemporary outdoor public sculpture by the City of New York, he had received many other public commissions, and had also been producing smaller-scale studio sculpture of distinction for nearly two decades, first in Los Angeles and then in New York. Since the late fifties he has been experimenting in a rather wide range of abstraction, from monolithic structures to more open geometric forms, often with elegant surface detailing concerned with effects of light and movement.