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Atmospheres and Environments
出版C.N. Potter, 1980
主題Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / GeneralArt / Individual Artists / GeneralArt / Individual Artists / MonographsArt / Sculpture & Installation
ISBN05175405419780517540541
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=KAtQAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"Louise Nevelson, now in her eightieth year, is one of our greatest contemporary American sculptors. This book, published in conjunction with an exhibition in her honor at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is a tribute to her spirit, her work, and her ongoing achievements. Nevelson, who worked with little recognition for the first fifty years of her life, became known to the general public in the mid-fifties with an exhibition of wood sculptures called MOON GARDEN + ONE. Accumulations of painted wood fragments, boxed, stacked, hanging, dramatically lit, they inspired wonder, reverence , and awe. A prominent New York critic called the show "shocking, overwhelming...appalling, marvelous." MOON GARDEN + ONE, with its tremendous vitality and power, is presented here along with four other major environments: the all-white exhibition shown at The Museum of Modern Art, DAWN'S WEDDING FEAST; the all-gold environment, THE ROYAL TIDES; and an earlier exhibition, THE ROYAL VOYAGE, whose carved pieces and found objects, painted black and arranged together, led to the idea of sculptural walls. In contrast, the last work, MRS. N's PALACE, is a three-dimensional piece -- a house on a mirrored floor that the viewer can walk around and enter -- made up of myriad small works. The original environment-installations are pictured here, as are many of the individual sculptures that comprised them, introduced by art historian Laurie Wilson, with quotes by Mrs. Nevelson herself. Edward Albee, playwright and friend of Mrs. Nevelson, has written a fascinating introduction discussing the artist's life and her art in the context of the history of sculpture over the past fifty years. Photographer Pedro E. Guerrero takes the reader on a privileged tour of Mrs. Nevelson's home and studio." --