Isbn: 9780978998721 - Lee Bontecou: Vacuum-formed Sculptures and Related Drawings (7 results)

Softcover. Condition: VG. Quarto. Softcover. White & illus. wraps. about 60 pp., about 35 mostly color plates. Issued in conjunction with a 2007 exhibition of work by American visual artist Lee Bontecou (b. 1931). With an illustrated essay by Elisabeth Sussman, and quite a number of examples of her work.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Printing in illustrated self wraps with original signed letter/receipt from the notorious Knoedler gallery laid in, a Fine unread copy of the catalogue based on an exhibition held between March 15 and April 28, 2007; 4to; 62pp, illus fully in color.

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran March 15 through April 28, 2007. Features an essay by Elisabeth Sussman. Includes numerous color illustrations, list of previous exhibitions, selected bibliography, and selected public collections. A fine copy in French style wrappers.…

Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. 64 pages. Paperback exhibition catalogue. There is some rubbing and light scuffing to the covers. Else, the binding is tight, the edges sharp, and the interior clean and free of markings. Bound in stiff illustrated French fold covers and published on the occasion of the exhibition from Knoedler & Company, New York NY March 15-April 28, 2007. 36 illustrations, 33 in color. Published biography. Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 4to. 59 pp. Very Good. Some fading to spine and extremities of rear wrap, else Fine.

Softcover, 62 pages; very good condition; light rubbing to covers; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Paperback. Condition: New. In her essay for this concise new catalogue of Lee Bontecou's early, transparent vacuum-formed fish and flora sculptures and associated works on paper, the esteemed curator and art historian Elisabeth Sussman writes, "From a standpoint 40 years later, as sculptors everywhere seek to marry form, expression, observation, social context and modern materials in single objects and in groups of objects, or installations; when making materials function in individual, idiosyncratic, expressive ways is a mark of distinction; Bontecou's fish and plants of the late 1960s and early 1970s now appear highly prophetic." Bontecou's early summers in Nova Scotia imbued her with a lifelong fascination with nature and the sea. After studying at the Art Students League in New York (1952-55) and spending a year in Rome on a Fulbright Fellowship (1956-57), Bontecou settled in New York's Lower East Side, and then Soho. In the late 1960s, however, she began to spend part of each year in the mountains of rural Pennsylvania, where she immersed herself in an evocative inner world of natural forms derived from fish and plants. Using a vacuum-forming machine invented by an artist friend, Bontecou created the haunting, light-weight translucent sculptures gathered here.…