Full name: Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective

Author: Lee Bontecou Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Art Purchase/reserch links: Amazon OpenLibrary Goodreads Google Books LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780300137460 030013746X

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. Similar books: Gustav Klimt by Tobias G. Natter The Family of Man by Edward Steichen De Kooning: A Retrospective by John Elderfield From Myst to Riven by Richard Kadrey The Magic Mirror of M. C. Escher by Bruno Ernst Vivian Maier by Vivian Maier Transfigurations by Alex Grey The Ultimate Alphabet by Mike Wilks Pastel Painting Atelier by Ellen Eagle The Art of Photography by Bruce Barnbaum Leonora Carrington by Susan L. Aberth The Photographer's Eye by Michael Freeman The Land of Froud by Brian Froud Dali by Dali by Salvador Dali Maira Kalman by Ingrid Schaffner Sculpture Today by Judith Collins Radiant Identities by Jock Sturges Drawing Realistic Pets from Photographs by Lee Hammond Digital Exposure Handbook by Ross Hoddinott The Blue Aspic by Edward Gorey