Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale: The Bronzes

Language: English

Published by Princeton University Press May 2023, 2023

0691244642 / 9780691244648

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A new retrospective of the work of trailblazing artist Barbara Chase-Riboud Barbara Chase-Riboud is a bestselling novelist, an award-winning poet, and a renowned visual artist whose sculpture and drawings are in museum collections around the world. Among her best-known sculptural work is the Malcolm X series of flowing cast bronze forms combined with braided fiber elements. Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale traces this pioneering artist's remarkable career from the 1950s to the present, providing the most comprehensive account of her important body of work to date. The book features both celebrated and never-before-seen artworks that highlight Chase-Riboud's groundbreaking contributions to contemporary sculpture. In addition to some forty sculptures, the book presents nearly twenty works on paper, a selection of Chase-Riboud's poetry, and excerpts from an interview with the artist. Exploring the many different aspects of Chase-Riboud's artistic practice, Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale provides unprecedented insights into her meditations on form, memory, and monument, while revealing the rich array of inspiration she has drawn from global art history and literature. Published in association with the Pulitzer Arts Foundation Exhibition SchedulePulitzer Arts Foundation, St. LouisSeptember 16, 2022-February 5, 2023 'Accompanying the largest monographic exhibition of trailblazing artist Barbara Chase-Riboud's (b. 1939, Philadelphia) work to date, Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale: The Bronzes traces the full output of the artist's remarkable career from the 1950s to the present. The catalogue features both celebrated and never-before-seen artworks, highlighting the artist's groundbreaking role in the field of contemporary sculpture. In addition to some fifty sculptures, the book presents twenty works on paper, as well as a selection of Chase-Riboud's internationally acclaimed poetry. It also includes excerpts from an interview with the artist conducted for the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution. The catalogue offers a careful consideration of the many diverse aspects of the artist's practice, and in doing so, it provides unprecedented insights into her meditations on form, memory, and monument, while revealing a rich array of global art-historical and literary points of inspiration'--.…

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Title
Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale: The Bronzes
Author
Christophe Cherix,Courtney J Martin,Akili Tommasino,Stephanie Weissberg
Publisher
Princeton University Press May 2023
Publication year
2023
Condition
New
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
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0691244642
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9780691244648
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