Martin Puryear (Signed First Edition)

PURYEAR, Martin and Neal Benezra, Robert Storr

ISBN 10: 0865590923 / ISBN 13: 9780865590922

Published by Thames and Hudson & The Art Institute of Chicago, New York & Chicago, IL, 1993

About this Item

First edition. Softcover. 160 pages. Monograph published on the occasion of a traveling show that started in Chicago for a run of November 2, 1991 through January 5, 1992 and then went on to Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and Philadelphia for additional dates. Foreword by James N. Wood. Text by Neal Benezra. Essay by Robert Storr and documentation by Nancy Owen and Carole Tormollan. Includes 102 illustrations with 48 in color, checklist, an extensive chronology, and a selected bibliography. An about very good copy in wrappers with some minor wear and some foxing to the page edges. Signed and inscribed by Puryear on the half title page.

Seller Inventory # 179840

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Martin Puryear (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Thames and Hudson & The Art Institute of Chicago, New York & Chicago, IL
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0865590923
• ISBN 13: 9780865590922
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art Monographs

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Synopsis

Martin Puryear has been described as one of the most important sculptors working in America. His work is found in the collections of nearly every major US museum, and in 1989 he won first prize at the Sao Paula Bienal. Wood is Puryear's favourite medium, sometimes combined with tar, wire or other substances, and his abstract ensembles are often on an imposing scale. This volume aims to show the artist's full range of materials, techniques and influences, and the reasons for his international recognition.

Review

Martin Puryear's sculpture has received increasing acclaim in the years since 1989, when he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation grant and the grand prize at the São Paulo Bienal, where he was the sole United States representative. Prepared to accompany a 1991 exhibition of his work at the Art Institute of Chicago, this cleanly designed and generously formatted catalog reflects the powerful simplicity of Puryear's work. Between two informative essays by Robert Starr and Neal Benezra, then curator of 20th-century painting and sculpture at the Art Institute, is a generous plate section reproducing more than 30 of Puryear's major works from 1974 to 1990. His sculpture is both meticulously crafted and completely unbound, evoking the most elemental forms of nature and landscape.