Elizabeth Murray
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2005. Hardbound. Color pictorial board covers. 236 pp., profusely illustrated in color. VG/VG. Item #102916
ISBN: 9780870704932
Published to coincide with the exhibition at The MoMA from 23 October 2005 to 9 January 2006. This retrospective exhibition looks at the career of a painter who has fundamentally altered contemporary abstract painting by continually experimenting out into three dimensions with shaped and constructed canvases. Elizabeth Murray has radically altered the structure of Modernist painting. Her shaped and constructed canvases, often topologically modeled in three dimensions or fitted together out of multiple jigsaw-like parts, treat figure and ground in unprecedented ways, giving the elastic shapes of classic Surrealism a space in their own image. The alternatively comfortable and cataclysmic world that her images depict would crack irreveocably if it followed Euclidean logic; instead, it constantly metamorphoses under stress. With a chaptered essay by Robert Storr, plate section, an in-depth interview, the book will explore Murray's relation to artists such as Joan Miro, Stuart Davis, Claes Oldenburg and Frank Stella, as well as to the mainstream and opened up options for rising generations. This book accompanies ths most detailed examination of Murray's art yet mounted, showing its development from Pop-oriented reliefs in the 1960s to the extraordinary volumetric of her recent work. Contents as follows: Acknowledgments -- Elizabeth Murray: Shape Shifter -- Plates -- Interview with Elizabeth Murray -- Chronology -- Bibliography -- Exhibition History -- Index of Plates -- Lenders to the Exhibition -- Trustees of The Museum of Modern Art.
OCLC: 61217847
Price: $29.97