The Sculpture of Nancy Graves: A Catalogue Raisonne - Hardcover

E. A. Carmean, Jr.; Linda L. Cathcart; Robert Hughes; Michael Edward Shapiro

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0933920776 ISBN 13: 9780933920774

Publisher: Hudson Hills Pr, 1987

Synopsis

Shows hundreds of the American artist's works and discusses her unique approach to modern sculpture

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Graves's highly personal sculpture is poetic, whimsical, sometimes perversely funny and nearly always wildly colorful. She pulls together natural and inanimate objects, coloring them with patination, fired enamel and polyurethane paint. Then her imagination combines and recombines these forms into improbable meditations on nature. A representative piece, Extend-Expand, is made of carob beans, vines, kitchen scissors, dried twigs and a chain of sardines, all transformed into a work of rigorous formalism. In another piece, 38 steel rods, abuzz with wax and acrylic outgrowths, form a rhythmic fugue on the theme of biological evolution. Graves eclectically exploits many traditions, sources, elements: Egyptian artifacts, Native American spiritualism, constructivist sculpture (Miro, Picasso, Smith), paleontology, masks, totems. This album catalogues a traveling exhibition.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hudson Hills Pr
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0933920776
• ISBN 13: 9780933920774
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192