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Nevelson Louise
The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend (Jewish Museum)
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Louise Nevelson (19001988) was a towering figure in postwar American art, exerting great influence with her monumental installations, innovative sculptures made of found objects, and celebrated public artworks. The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson focuses on all phases of the artist’s remarkable ascent to the top of the art world, from her groundbreaking works of the 1940s to complex pieces completed in the late 1980s. The most extensive study of Nevelson to be published in over 20 years, this beautifully illustrated book also demonstrates how Nevelson’s flamboyant style and carefully cultivated persona enhanced her reputation as an artist of the first rank.
Essays by distinguished scholars examine a wide variety of important issues and themes throughout Nevelson’s career, including the role of monochromatic color in her painted wooden sculpture; the art-historical context of her work; her acclaimed large-scale commissioned artworks, which established her as a central figure in the public art revival of the late 1960s; and her self-fashioning” as a celebrated artist, particularly her origins as a Ukrainian-born Jewish immigrant to the United States. An illustrated chronology and exhibition history accompany the text.
Published in conjunction with the first major exhibition of Nevelson’s work in America since 1980, this book provides essential information on and insights into the study of a revolutionary 20th-century artist.
Louise Nevelson: A Passionate Life
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The only biography of this important American sculptor, Louise Nevelson is the story of an artist who became a legend in her time. Born in a Russian village, she grew up in Maine and married a wealthy New Yorker. As her dedication to art grew, she abandoned her husband and neglected her son. She found inspiration in old wood, creating a rich iconography of blackened images. After achieving success at the age of sixty, she adopted an exotic persona while continuing to add to the magnificent body of work that is today found in public parks and major museums throughout the world.
Louise Nevelson
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Louise Nevelson (1899–1988) produced her first series of landscape sculptures during the mid-fifties. Shortly thereafter, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art acquired her works. This gorgeous monograph presents an impressive collection of 560 works: 100 large-format works in full-page reproductions and 460 reproductions of installations, collages, and designs, arranged in chronological order. The works are accompanied by some 200 images of documents, photographs, magazine articles, as well as 50 works by her contemporaries, a broad historical documentation of the period, and a timeline of the historic, political, artistic, and cultural events that shaped the artist’s world.
Nevelson: Wood Sculptures, An Exhibition Organized by Walker Art Center,
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Inside cover notes: "This book surveys the stylistic evolution of Louise Nevelson's wood sculpture over three decades, focusing on the primal themes so identified with her art - 'table landscapes,' columns, boxes, reliefs and walls. More than sixty works are illustrated, ranging from small-scale containers (the 'Cryptics') to a sequence of monumental black walls that she has continued to produce since the mid-1950s. In addition, a number of recent photographs of Nevelson in her studio are included. Wood is indisputably Nevelson's medium and the exhibition documents her remarkable use of this material. Although she has recently made small, precise plexiglass cube constructions and overseen the translation of several of her earlier wood pieces into large coro-ten steel sculptures, the genesis and essence of her art is in her special use of wood, with which she creates seemingly weightless shapes whose iconography relates them to the past as well as to the present. She is an accumulator, a compulsive forager of abandoned and discarded fragments - chair backs, architectural scrollwork, brush handles, weathered planking, and sweepings of chps and slivers from the carpenter's floor. These become the ingredients of her spectral, architectural compositions which, painted a uniform color - black, white or, on rare occasions, gold - allude to a mysterious reality."
Nevelson Louise News
Museum to Present a Major Collection of American and European ... - Art Daily
Art Daily, Maine - May 24, 2009
Museum to Present a Major Collection of American and European Sculptures include the work of Elie Nadelman, John Storrs, Alberto Giacometti, and Louise Nevelson. Of special note is a large and well-known painting by Thomas Hart Benton, The Apple of Discord, and a rare landscape drawing by American Regionalist
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UBS Art Gallery Celebrates 120th Anniversary of the National ... - Art Daily
Art Daily, Maine - May 24, 2009
UBS Art Gallery Celebrates 120th Anniversary of the National A Parallel Presence features work by 55 artists including Theresa Bernstein, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Blanche Lazzell, Dorothy Dehner, Louise Nevelson, June Wayne, Pat Adams, Faith Ringgold, Idelle Weber and Martha WalkeUBS Art Gallery.
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London round-up - London Informer
London Informer, UK - May 21, 2009
London round-upWhichever way you view Louise Nevelson's sculptures, just make sure you see them. The free exhibition at Ladbroke Grove's hidden giant of a gallery, the Louise T Blouin, is Britain's first solo exhibition given to an artist revered in America.
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Louise Nevelson in London - ARTINFO
ARTINFO, NY - Feb 04, 6433
Louise Nevelson in LondonLONDON—Last Wednesday, April 29, the Louise Blouin Foundation kicked off its latest exhibition, the first major show of works by the late Russian-born sculptor Louise Nevelson in London in four decades. Organized in partnership with PaceWildenstein,
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Art Notes: May 24, 2009 - Charleston Gazette
Charleston Gazette, WV - May 24, 2009
Art Notes: May 24, 2009Among the artists are Jennifer Bartlett, Rosa Bonheur, Mary Cassatt, Joseph Delaney, Sonia Delaunay, Viola Frey, William Glackens, Hans Hofmann, Lee Krasner, Joan Miró, Robert Motherwell, Louise Nevelson, Pablo Picasso, Grace Martin Taylor and Suzanne
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