Description
Essays by distinguished scholars examine all kinds of essential issues and themes all the way through 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 artistic endeavors, 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 USA. An illustrated chronology and exhibition history accompany the text.
Published at the side of the first major exhibition of Nevelson’s work in The usa since 1980, this book provides very important information on and insights into the study of a revolutionary 20th-century artist.