Drag, color, join, face
type: CreativeWork
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: Sculpture, American--20th century
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: Sculpture, American
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31083615
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320127062
abstract: "In this radical rethinking of the art of Louise Nevelson (1899-1988), Julia Bryan-Wilson provides a long-overdue critical account of a signature figure in postwar sculpture. A Ukraine-born Jewish immigrant, Nevelson persevered in the male-dominated New York art world. Nonetheless, her careful procedures of construction--in which she assembled found pieces of wood into elaborate structures, usually painted black--have been little studied.Organized around a series of key operations in Nevelson's own process (dragging, coloring, joining, and facing), the book comprises four slipcased, individually bound volumes that can be read in any order. Both form and content thus echo Nevelson's own modular sculptures, the gridded boxes of which the artist herself rearranged. Exploring how Nevelson's making relates to domesticity, racialized matter, gendered labor, and the environment, Bryan-Wilson offers a sustained examination of the social and political implications of Nevelson's art. The author also approaches Nevelson's sculptures from her own embodied subjectivity as a queer feminist scholar. She forges an expansive art history that places Nevelson's assemblages in dialogue with a wide array of marginalized worldmaking and underlines the artist's proclamation of allegiance to blackness."-- Publisher's website.
author: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310204729
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310204729
language: eng
name: Louise Nevelson's sculpture
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300195187
  text: [1.Drag] -- [2. Color] -- [3. Join] -- [4. Face].
temporal coverage: 1900-1999
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301327083

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property ID: NL-AmRIJ
value: 327083