LOUISE NEVELSON. Light and Shadow. ( signed )

Wilson, Laurie

ISBN 10: 0500094012 / ISBN 13: 9780500094013

Published by Thames and Hudson, New York, 2016

About this Item

1st American edition, 2016. A Very Good book in a Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo., 506 pp., bound in publishers blue cloth with photo illustrated dust jacket, $39.95. INSCRIBED by author on title page. Some spotting to text edge, otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve.

Seller Inventory # 35863

Bibliographic Details

• Title: LOUISE NEVELSON. Light and Shadow. ( signed )
• Publisher: Thames and Hudson, New York
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500094012
• ISBN 13: 9780500094013
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st American edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography & Autobiography

About this title

Synopsis

The most complete biography of the iconic sculptor Louise Nevelson, the groundbreaking artist and fixture of New York’s art world based on hours of interviews the author conducted at the height of Nevelson’s fame

In 1929, Louise Nevelson was a disappointed housewife with a young son, surrounded by New York’s vibrant artistic community but unable to fully engage with it. By 1950, she was an artist living on her own, financially dependent on her family, but she had received a glimmer of recognition from the establishment: inclusion in a group show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1980, Nevelson celebrated her second Whitney retrospective. Her work was held in public collections around the world; her massive steel sculptures appeared in public spaces in seventeen states, including the Louise Nevelson Plaza in New York City’s Financial District.

The story of Nevelson’s artistic, spiritual, even physical transformation (she developed a taste for outrageous outfits and false eyelashes made of mink) is dramatic, complex, and inseparable from major historical and cultural shifts of the twentieth century, particularly in the art world. Art historian and psychoanalyst Laurie Wilson brings a unique and sensitive perspective to Nevelson’s story, drawing on hours of interviews she conducted with Nevelson and her circle. Over 100 images, many of them drawn from personal archives and never before published, make this the most visually and narratively comprehensive biography of this remarkable artist yet published.

98 illustrations

About the Author

Laurie Wilson is an art historian and practicing psychoanalyst on the faculty of the Psychoanalytic Association of New York affiliated with NYU School of Medicine. Her involvement with Nevelson dates back to the 1970s, when she spent fifteen hours interviewing the artist for her doctoral dissertation, Louise Nevelson: Iconography and Sources, which was subsequently published in the series Outstanding Dissertations in the Fine Arts. She has also written over a dozen chapters, articles, and essays on Nevelson.