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Julia Bryan-Wilson

Louise Nevelson's Sculpture

Drag, Color, Join, Face

Julia Bryan-Wilson

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English
Yale University Press
17 August 2023
History of Art & Design Styles; Non-graphic art forms; Individual artists, art monographs; Gender studies: women
A daring reassessment of Louise Nevelson, an icon of twentieth-century art whose innovative procedures relate to gendered, classed, and racialized forms of making

In this radical rethinking of the art of Louise Nevelson (1899–1988), Julia Bryan-Wilson provides a long-overdue critical account of a signature figure in postwar sculpture. A Ukraine-born Jewish immigrant, Nevelson persevered in the male-dominated New York art world. Nonetheless, her careful procedures of construction—in which she assembled found pieces of wood into elaborate structures, usually painted black—have been little studied.

Organized around a series of key operations in Nevelson’s own process (dragging, coloring, joining, and facing), the book comprises four slipcased, individually bound volumes that can be read in any order. Both form and content thus echo Nevelson’s own modular sculptures, the gridded boxes of which the artist herself rearranged. Exploring how Nevelson’s making relates to domesticity, racialized matter, gendered labor, and the environment, Bryan-Wilson offers a sustained examination of the social and political implications of Nevelson’s art. The author also approaches Nevelson’s sculptures from her own embodied subjectivity as a queer feminist scholar. She forges a boldly intersectional art history that places Nevelson’s assemblages in dialogue with a wide array of marginalized worldmaking and underlines the artist’s proclamation of allegiance to blackness.
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Imprint:   Yale University Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 178mm, 
ISBN:   9780300236705
ISBN 10:   0300236700
Pages:   352
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Julia Bryan-Wilson is the award-winning author of Fray: Art and Textile Politics and Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era.

Reviews for Louise Nevelson's Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face

Boldly conceived, Julia Bryan-Wilson's far-reaching study gives us a multidirectional understanding of Louise Nevelson's intersectional abstraction that renders the artist strikingly contemporary. -Kobena Mercer, author of Travel & See: Black Diaspora Art Practices since the 1980s Julia Bryan-Wilson's Louise Nevelson is exceptional in its innovative framing, physical structure, and above all, brilliantly original weaving of personal experience, material analysis, and art historical methodologies. -Jo Applin, author of Lee Lozano: Not Working Bryan-Wilson brings world-class critical, feminist, and social-historical skills to bear on Nevelson's sculpture and public persona. The result is that we see Nevelson's radiant intelligence in a new light. -Richard Meyer, author of Master of the Two Left Feet: Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered From the multicomponent design to the conceptual approaches therein, Bryan-Wilson has crafted an innovative and engaging look at Louise Nevelson. Further, she offers a queered, critical methodology that changes the game. -Bridget R. Cooks, author of Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum


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