Lee Bontecou : a retrospective

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Lee Bontecou : a retrospective

exhibition curator, Elizabeth A.T. Smith in association with Ann Philbin ; essays by Donna De Salvo ... [et al.]

Museum of Contemporary Art , UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center , Harry N. Abrams, 2003

  • : Abrams: hc.
  • : Museum: sc.
  • : Museum and Yale: softcover

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Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective", presented at UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, October 5, 2003-January 11, 2004, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, February 14-May 30, 2004, Museum of Modern Art, New York, July 28-September 27, 2004

Essays also by Mona Hadler, Donald Judd, Elizabeth A. T. Smith, Robert Storr

ISBN(9780300137460) from 2008 reprinting

Bibliography: p. 235-237

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: Museum and Yale: softcover ISBN 9780300137460

Description

New in paperback Artist Lee Bontecou (b. 1931) became widely known in the 1960s and 1970s for her welded steel sculptures and plastic and epoxy molded assemblages--powerful constructions that evoked natural phenomena and organic biological life as well as machines and instruments of war. This critically acclaimed book--available for the first time in paperback-- reevaluates the career of this highly influential artist and focuses not only upon the impact of her early work but also on the import she has exerted on a generation of younger artists. Featuring some 50 sculptures and more than 100 drawings from the late 1950s to 2003, the book presents four essays that reposition Bontecou's work within the history of recent art, examine its shifting critical reception, discuss the artistic context in which her work was made, and analyze how science underpinned some of her earliest explorations.
Volume

: Abrams: hc. ISBN 9780810946187

Description

Lee Bontecou became widely known early in the 1960s for her welded steel sculptures into which various fabrics, metals and found objects were incorporated. By the mid-1960s she began to experiment with plastics, epoxy and other synthetic materials to create moulded rather than assembled forms. As her work evolved, it increasingly made reference to naturalistic phenomena, evoking biological life - an interest that was also manifest in her earliest cast sculptures of birds and animals. This monograph is a major survey of Bontecou's work and provides an opportunity to re-evaluate the career of the artist.

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  • NCID
    BA66707480
  • ISBN
    • 0810946181
    • 0933856806
    • 9780300137460
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Chicago,Los Angeles,New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    240 p.
  • Size
    29 cm
  • Subject Headings
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