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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Cloth, xii, 423 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Remainder mark/tail edge. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. A massive coffee-table book. *** "A long-overdue monograph on a sculptor who draws not only on minimalism and conceptualism but on a rich web of intellectual and visual sources to create postmodern work that is a 'complex' of juxtapositions. Alice Aycock's large, semi-architectural works deal with the interaction of structure, site, materials, and the psychophysical responses of the viewer. Offered meaningful but contradictory clues by both her images and her texts, viewers attempt to discover not only what the work of art conveys but how it communicates its contents, in investigations that parallel the artist's own. In Alice Aycock: Sculpture and Projects, Robert Hobbs examines the development of Aycock's work over twenty years and her negotiation-along with other artists who came of age in the early 1970s-of the transition from modernism to postmodernism. 'The problem,' wrote Aycock in 1977, 'seems to be how to connect without connecting.' Hobbs describes Aycock's strategies for doing just this: for creating a work with disparate image and texts that offer a new perspective on reality. Influenced by the 'specific objects' of minimalism's hybrid forms and by conceptualism's emphasis on language, Aycock relies on paradigms, cybernetics, phenomenology, physics, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, information overload, outdated scientific thinking, and computer programming to create a 'complex' that is architectural and sculptural as well as mental and emotional. Schizophrenia and other mental conditions, sometimes considered metaphors for the disconnections of postmodern existence, are specific sources of inspiration in Aycock's work. By exploring the physical and existential positions of isolation, estrangement, disorientation, entrapment and fear, her three-dimensional constructions not only posit alternative states of mind, they suppose possible narratives and suggest multiple truths and lies. Aycock's work invites the viewer to experience sculpture with the entire body and a fully mind. Her sculpture has had a transformative effect on the contemporary art experience." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: The beginning of a complex; Aycock on her family: facts into myths; Incarnating thought as baby boomer, cold war soldier, and '60s radical; From minimalism to the future; Cresting the minimalist/postminimalist divide; M.A. thesis: the highway network; Early work: projecting art into viewer's spaces and the world, the aesthetics of danger, and the synergy of 112 Greene Street; Maze, 1972; Low building with dirt roof (for Mary), 1973; Feminism; Drawing on patriarchal order while deflecting it; Architectural sculpture; Site specificity; Architectural sculpture as suprastruction; Borges's tear and Aycock's rip; The true and the false project: embodied and disembodied seeing: phenomenology and schizophrenia; "The beginning of a complex.": for documenta; Writerly texts and schizophrenia; Virtual space, medieval legacies, and architectural sculpture; From architectural sculpture to The machine that makes the world; How to catch and manufacture ghosts; The art of memory in the age of artificial intelligence; Enmeshed in wisdom's nets; Sophistry and postmodernism. Size: 4to.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Cloth, 158 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. A large-format coffee-table book. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; I. Introduction: Vision, A Historical Artifact; II. Early Development: Paris and New York; III. Transition: The Etchings; IV. Maturity; V. The Automobile and the American View; VI. Outside the Mainstream: The Victims of Modernism; VII. Late Works: 1940-1965; Chronology; Selected Bibliography; Photograph Credits; Index. Size: 4to. Collectible.…

Paper. Condition: Good. Good paper copy ex. cat., 24 pp, 1 pp fwd, 3 pp text, 10 4/C illus., 1 B/W photo of the artist, 2 pp chron, a list of selected public collections.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st. 224 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 31 cm. Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by Independent Curators International, held at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 10, 1999 to January 2, 2000; and other venues. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps. Large softcover. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "Abstract Expressionist painter Lee Krasner (1908-1984) was the only critically recognized woman artist among the founders of the New York school of painting after World War II. Although her historical importance was understood at an early date, the significance of her work - and her position as an essential figure in postwar American art - has been appreciated only in recent decades. Unlike her male colleagues, who viewed painting as a primal expression of the self, Krasner saw her art as an open-ended exploration. Her complex and original works were dense with intellectual and cultural suggestion, incorporating human and foliate forms, allusions to myth and ancient script, and deliberate ambiguity. This lavishly illustrated book, which accompanies a major traveling exhibition of Krasner's paintings, brings new insight to her remarkable achievements. Art historian Robert Hobbs takes a fresh look at her work, examining its forms and iconography to reveal the impressive originality and complexity of her creation. Beginning with Krasner's experiences at art school in the 1930s, and continuing through fifty years of her creative work, Hobbs traces the artist's development as she gradually came to terms with a maturing self. Drawing on a variety of sources, including in-depth interviews with Krasner and her friends, Hobbs reveals Krasner as one of the most remarkable figures in postwar art." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Foreword and acknowledgments, by Judith Olch Richards; Lee Krasner: an intimate introduction, by B. H. Friedman; Lee Krasner, by Robert Hobbs; Chronology; Bibliography; Index; Lenders to the exhibition; Independent Curators International Board of Trustees. Size: 4to. Collectible.…

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Dust Jacket Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 192 pp., 186 ills. hardcover - With over one hundred paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings, this definitive survey brings together the work of American artists-Joseph Cornell, Peter Blume, Kay Sage, Isamu Noguchi, Arshile Gorky, and Jackson Pollock-with that of Europeans in exile during World War II, including Salvador Dalí, Yves Tanguy, André Masson, and Max Ernst. …