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Lee Bontecou: Drawn Worlds
Michelle White
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Description for Lee Bontecou: Drawn Worlds
Hardback. The first survey of more than fifty years of drawing by a legendary sculptor and draftswoman Series: Menil Collection. Num Pages: 120 pages, 82 colour images + 9 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 287 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1052.
The first survey of more than fifty years of drawing by a legendary sculptor and draftswoman
Lee Bontecou (b. 1931) established a significant reputation in the 1960s with pioneering sculptures and reliefs made of raw and expressionistic materials. Her art is simultaneously organic and mechanical, and infused with biological, geological, and technological motifs. These same qualities also animate a less-known but compelling body of work: her drawings. Ranging from her early soot on paper works created using powder from a welding torch to recent drawings in pencil and colored pencil that evoke cosmoses and microcosmic worlds, this stunning ... Read more
The first survey of more than fifty years of drawing by a legendary sculptor and draftswoman
Lee Bontecou (b. 1931) established a significant reputation in the 1960s with pioneering sculptures and reliefs made of raw and expressionistic materials. Her art is simultaneously organic and mechanical, and infused with biological, geological, and technological motifs. These same qualities also animate a less-known but compelling body of work: her drawings. Ranging from her early soot on paper works created using powder from a welding torch to recent drawings in pencil and colored pencil that evoke cosmoses and microcosmic worlds, this stunning ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
Series
Menil Collection
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300204131
SKU
V9780300204131
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Ref
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About Michelle White
Michelle White is curator at The Menil Collection, Houston. Dore Ashton is an art critic and art historian. Joan Banach is an artist who lives and works in New York City.
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