Louise Nevelsons Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face Bryan-Wilson Julia

A daring reassessment of Louise Nevelson, an icon of twentieth-century art whose innovative procedures relate to gendered, classed, and racialized forms of makingIn 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. 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. A Ukraine-born Jewish immigrant, Nevelson persevered in the male-dominated New York art world.

Both form and content thus echo Nevelson's own modular sculptures, the