Download or read book Louise Nevelson written by Louise Nevelson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete monograph dedicated to one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century. Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) was born in Kiev, Russia and immigrated to Rockland, Maine at the age of six. Following her marriage in 1920, Nevelson moved to New York City. It was during the mid-Fifties that she produced her first series of black wood landscape sculptures. Shortly thereafter, three New York City museums acquired her work: the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum and The Museum of Modern Art. In 1967, the Whitney Museum organized Nevelson's first retrospective, and her work has been the subject of over 135 solo exhibitions.
Download or read book The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson written by Louise Nevelson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a catalog of an exhibition showcasing the works of the American sculptor and artist.
Download or read book Louise Nevelson written by Louise Nevelson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louise Nevelson is one of our greatest contemporary American sculptors. This book is a tribute to her spirit, her work, and her ongoing achievements.
Download or read book Louise Nevelson written by Laurie Lisle and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louise Nevelson, one of the most important American sculptors of the twentieth century, was a beautiful woman who lived so audacious a life that by the time of her death she was a legend both inside and outside the art world. Born Leah Berliawsky in Czarist Russia in 1899, she grew up in Maine, ostracized as a Jew and a foreigner. At twenty she escaped to Manhattan as Mrs. Charles Nevelson, eventually leaving her husband for a life devoted to art. She lived and loved with lusty abandon, often in poverty and obscurity, until she finally achieved fame and fortune at sixty. “This biography of a monstre sacre is a tale of hard-tacks heroism and heedless swipes at those who dared to love her,” said Interview magazine. Nevelson found inspiration in cubism, primitive art, and her own unconscious, creating a rich iconography of images. With black, white, or gold paint and perfect placement, she transformed old pieces of wood picked up on the street into powerful sculptures. In later years she appeared in mink eyelashes and flamboyant costumes, all the while going to her studio every day before dawn to add to the astonishing body of work now in collections of museums around the world. Laurie Lisle interviewed Nevelson before the artist’s death in 1988, as well as her lovers, family members, artist friends, and many others. This biography provides fascinating insights and information discovered in archives and public records, letters and diaries, and the artist’s own prose and poetry. Now in a revised e-book edition, Louise Nevelson: A Passionate Life is the only biography of this important American sculptor. It is “impressive in its thoroughness, which nonetheless results in ‘good reading’ by virtue of its interweaving of personal and professional information, its eclectic introduction of psychological analysis, and a phraseology that appreciates both the pain and the joy surrounding Nevelson’s eccentric behavior,” according to Woman’s Art Journal.
Download or read book Modern Masters written by Smithsonian American Art Museum and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publication accompanies the inaugural exhibition at the new Frost Collection, Florida, which looks at the rise to prominence of the New York art scene in the two decades following the Second World War
Download or read book Louise Nevelson Light and Shadow written by Laurie Wilson and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2016-12-16 with total page 877 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete biography of the iconic sculptor Louise Nevelson, the groundbreaking artist and fixture of New York’s art world based on hours of interviews the author conducted at the height of Nevelson’s fame In 1929, Louise Nevelson was a disappointed housewife with a young son, surrounded by New York’s vibrant artistic community but unable to fully engage with it. By 1950, she was an artist living on her own, financially dependent on her family, but she had received a glimmer of recognition from the establishment: inclusion in a group show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1980, Nevelson celebrated her second Whitney retrospective. Her work was held in public collections around the world; her massive steel sculptures appeared in public spaces in seventeen states, including the Louise Nevelson Plaza in New York City’s Financial District. The story of Nevelson’s artistic, spiritual, even physical transformation (she developed a taste for outrageous outfits and false eyelashes made of mink) is dramatic, complex, and inseparable from major historical and cultural shifts of the twentieth century, particularly in the art world. Art historian and psychoanalyst Laurie Wilson brings a unique and sensitive perspective to Nevelson’s story, drawing on hours of interviews she conducted with Nevelson and her circle. Over 100 images, many of them drawn from personal archives and never before published, make this the most visually and narratively comprehensive biography of this remarkable artist yet published.
Download or read book Louise Nevelson written by Laurie Wilson and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louise Nevelson (18991988) was, with Calder, Noguchi and David Smith, one of the great American sculptors of the 20th century. She created extraordinary work, from room-size installations composed of boxes to gnarled and majestic steel structures. Her life story is no less interesting. She was born in czarist Russia, but her family emigrated to the States and she grew up in Maine. Nevelson endured a repressive marriage to a New York millionaire, whom she escaped to pursue the life of an artist. She gained recognition as an abstract sculptor at the age of 59, and spent the next 30 years taking the art world by storm, becoming a colourful New York personality and minor celebrity. Laurie Wilson, who knew Nevelson personally, draws extensively on her own research in this crisp new biography. She conducted interviews not just with Nevelson but with her siblings, son, and gallery owner Arne Glimcher. Wilson has also had complete access to Glimchers archives, Nevelsons personal assistant, Diana Mackown, and Lippincott studios, where much of Nevelsons work was cast, among others.
Download or read book Louise Nevelson written by Arnold B. Glimcher and published by Dutton Books. This book was released on 1976 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the relationship between rats and people and the many ways rats have been perceived by mankind.
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Download or read book Nevelson Wood Sculptures written by Louise Nevelson and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1973 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 chips 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." -- Notes inside cover.
Download or read book The World Outside written by Shirley Reece-Hughes and published by Amon Carter Museum. This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Through the voices of scholars, contemporary artists, family, and carefully selected artworks, a more nuanced picture of Louise Nevelson emerges in The World Outside: Louise Nevelson at Midcentury. A deep dive into the artist's beginnings with modern dance and her subsequent immersion in avant-garde theatrical trends brings new understandings of her drawings and sculptures. A reframing of Nevelson's travels to Mexico and Guatemala in 1950 and 1951, respectively, and her encounters with pre-Columbian art reveal for the first time how colonial archeology haunted her visual language for decades. Another previously undiscussed facet of Nevelson's life, her folk-art interests, provides a topic rife for understanding the artist's approach to America's material culture of the past. A pioneering examination of Nevelson's printmaking experiences at Tamarind Lithography Workshop reveals how the artist created alternative modes of viewing through unconventional methods and materials. Also discussed anew is Nevelson's stated intention of creating the "in-between," examined here as an endemic and connecting core principle of her work. A fresh look recontextualizes Nevelson's experiences during the rise of environmentalism and relays previously undisclosed connections between her art and the ecology movement. And finally, in the five "reflection essays" contemporary voices from the dance and art worlds describe Nevelson's vaunted role in their careers; a local expert discusses Nevelson's roots and relationship to Maine in vivid detail; and the artist's granddaughter shares intimate insights into Nevelson's thoughts on spirituality"--
Download or read book Louise Nevelson written by Louise Nevelson and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Louise Nevelson Iconography and Sources written by Laurie Wilson and published by Garland Publishing. This book was released on 1981 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edward Albee s Occupant written by Edward Albee and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York sculptor Louise Nevelson's life was marked by intrepid triumphs and deep inner turmoil. Both her public accomplishments and private emotional conflicts are thoroughly examined by an unnamed interviewer who questions the posthumous Nevelson with an unabashed scrutiny. The result is a touching, humorous, and honest tribute to a woman who was a pioneer for free-thinking females everywhere, but also stood on her own as one of the 20th century's greatest artistic minds.
Download or read book Louise Nevelson written by Louise Nevelson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Louise Nevelson written by Louise Nevelson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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