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Memory Work: Anne Truitt and Sculpture
Miguel de Baca
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Description for Memory Work: Anne Truitt and Sculpture
Hardback. Demonstrates the evolution of the pioneering minimalist sculptor Anne Truitt. This book offers an insider's view of the artist's unstinting efforts to realize her artistic vision, as well as the cultural, political, and historical resonances. Num Pages: 236 pages, 25 color, 49 b/w. BIC Classification: ACX; AFKB; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178. .
Memory Work demonstrates the evolution of the pioneering minimalist sculptor Anne Truitt. An artist determined to make her way through a new aesthetic in the 1960s, Truitt was tireless in her pursuit of a strong cultural voice. At the heart of her practice was the key theme of memory, which enabled her not only to express personal experience but also to address how perception was changing for a contemporary viewership. She gravitated toward the idea that an object in one's focus could unleash a powerful return to the past through memory, which in turn brings a fresh, even critical, attention ... Read more
Memory Work demonstrates the evolution of the pioneering minimalist sculptor Anne Truitt. An artist determined to make her way through a new aesthetic in the 1960s, Truitt was tireless in her pursuit of a strong cultural voice. At the heart of her practice was the key theme of memory, which enabled her not only to express personal experience but also to address how perception was changing for a contemporary viewership. She gravitated toward the idea that an object in one's focus could unleash a powerful return to the past through memory, which in turn brings a fresh, even critical, attention ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
236
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
671 g
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520286610
SKU
V9780520286610
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About Miguel de Baca
Miguel de Baca is Associate Professor of Art History at Lake Forest College. He specializes in modern and contemporary American art history and American studies.
Reviews for Memory Work: Anne Truitt and Sculpture
... thorough research and exceedingly compelling and rigorously formal readings of individual works.
Christa Noel Robbins Oxford Art Journal De Baca's use of memory as a framework for this investigation is revealing and evocative, at the same time that it confirms the triggers for Truitt's intriguing sculptural output as ultimately unknowable. Woman's Art Journal
Christa Noel Robbins Oxford Art Journal De Baca's use of memory as a framework for this investigation is revealing and evocative, at the same time that it confirms the triggers for Truitt's intriguing sculptural output as ultimately unknowable. Woman's Art Journal