A study of Nancy Graves's prints, which offers an overview of Graves' printmaking activity and discusses the development of her complex visual language. Her prints represent her artistic interests, her experimentation with materials and her desire to break down traditional boundaries within and between artistic mediums. The catalogue raisonne of Graves's graphic work comprises nearly 200 prints made at workshops in the United States and Europe.
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A study of Nancy Graves's prints, which offers an overview of Graves' printmaking activity and discusses the development of her complex visual language. Her prints represent her artistic interests, her experimentation with materials and her desire to break down traditional boundaries within and between artistic mediums. The catalogue raisonne of Graves's graphic work comprises nearly 200 prints made at workshops in the United States and Europe.
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New in New jacket. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. 11.25 inches tall; 207 pages with index. Graves is unusually attuned to the phenomena of nature. A passionate interest in science led her to introduce unorthodox forms drawn from astronomy, botany, cartography, and zoology into her art. In the last decade, her intellectual pursuits have taken a more humanist course as she has recast world history into an enigmatic pictorial idiom. Graves has spoken of her desire to make art out of what she terms the "shards of art, " and she has assembled a cache of images drawn from various disciplines, eras, and civilizations. Over the past twenty years, Nancy Graves has produced an extraordinarily varied body of work in an ever-expanding range of mediums, including painting, film, costume and set design, and print. In comparison to her painting and sculpture, Graves's prints have received little attention. This beautiful book illustrates Graves's entire graphic oeuvre and illuminates the artist's exacting concern for matters of form, material, and process. In his essay, Thomas Padon offers an overview of Graves's printmaking activity and discusses the development of her complex visual language. Most of these works are published for the first time in this comprehensive volume.