In her essay for this concise new catalogue of Lee Bontecou's early transparent vacuum-formed fish and flora sculptures and associated works on paper, the esteemed curator and art historian Elisabeth Sussman writes, "From a standpoint 40 years later, as sculptors everywhere seek to marry form, expression, observation, social context and modern materials in single objects and in groups of objects, or installations; when making materials function in individual, idiosyncratic, expressive ways is a mark of distinction; Bontecou ...
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In her essay for this concise new catalogue of Lee Bontecou's early transparent vacuum-formed fish and flora sculptures and associated works on paper, the esteemed curator and art historian Elisabeth Sussman writes, "From a standpoint 40 years later, as sculptors everywhere seek to marry form, expression, observation, social context and modern materials in single objects and in groups of objects, or installations; when making materials function in individual, idiosyncratic, expressive ways is a mark of distinction; Bontecou's fish and plants of the late 1960s and early 1970s now appear highly prophetic." Bontecou's early summers in Nova Scotia imbued her with a lifelong fascination with nature and the sea. After studying at the Art Students League in New York (1952-55) and spending a year in Rome on a Fulbright Fellowship (1956-57), Bontecou settled in New York's Lower East Side, and then Soho. In the late 1960s, however, she began to spend part of each year in the mountains of rural Pennsylvania, where she immersed herself in an evocative inner world of natural forms derived from fish and plants. Using a vacuum-forming machine invented by an artist friend, Bontecou created the haunting, lightweight translucent sculptures gathered here.
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Very good. No jacket. Catalog published on the occasion of an exhibition at M. Knoedler & Co. in New York lasting from March 15th to April 28th, 2007. Small ink smudges on back cover and back flap, not covering text or images. Binding is tight. Bottom edge of text block is lightly scuffed. Text block and outer edges of pages are very lightly tanned, but text and images are clear and bright, and pages are otherwise clean and unmarked.
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Very Good. Book 64 pages. Paperback exhibition catalogue. There is some rubbing and light scuffing to the covers. Else, the binding is tight, the edges sharp, and the interior clean and free of markings. Bound in stiff illustrated French fold covers and published on the occasion of the exhibition from Knoedler & Company, New York NY March 15-April 28, 2007. 36 illustrations, 33 in color. Published biography.
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New. 0978998723. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--Text in English. 64 pp. With 36 ills. (28 col. ). 26 x 23 cm. --with a bonus offer--