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An essential account of America's greatest sculptor . . . [A] magnum opus." -Marjorie Perloff, The Times Literary SupplementThe landmark biography of the inscrutable and brilliant David Smith, the greatest American sculptor of the twentieth century. David Smith, a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, did more than any other sculptor of his era to bring the plastic arts to the forefront of the American scene. Central to his project of reimagining...

The first monograph since the death of the artist in 2017, this book looks at the five decades of Magdalena Abakanowicz's career, beginning within the context of her native Poland, then expanding internationally as she moved out into the world. In doing so, it offers a new and comprehensive understanding of both the artist's formal developments and desire to ground metaphorical meanings in our own time. In Knots: Abakanowicz and the Polish Art...

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The landmark biography of the inscrutable and brilliant David Smith, the greatest American sculptor of the twentieth century. The artist David Smith once wrote, "'Humanism' is a useless word in my time." A member of the abstract expressionist generation, he would do more than any sculptor of his era to bring the plastic arts to the forefront of the American scene. Central to this project was his desire to explode the logic that equated represe...

Addresses the relationships between landscape, industry, and the works David Smith (1906-1965) realized between 1961 and 1963. Painted in unnatural colours but constructed to stand in concert with the dramatic Adirondack landscape in which he lived, the author's sculptures confront viewers with a conflict.

During a three-week residency at Portland, Oregon's Small A Projects in 2007, New York-based artist Corin Hewitt, born in 1971, constructed an elaborate workspace within the gallery, complete with a kitchen, photo studio and theater in which the apron-wearing artist performed a series of tasks--cooking, sculpting, eating and weaving--as gallery visitors viewed him through a peephole. Merging elements representing both the contemporary and the ...

Acts of Engagement brings together writings spanning the extraordinarily eventful ten-year after the author left The New York Times, where he had been an art critic from 1982 to 1991. The writings fall into three broad areas: art, art criticism, and arts and cultural institutions. In each area, Brenson finds it imperative to consider issues such as responsibility, creativity, process, and voice - issues that have taken on increasing urgency as...

Acts of Engagement brings together writings spanning the extraordinarily eventful ten-year after the author left The New York Times, where he had been an art critic from 1982 to 1991. The writings fall into three broad areas: art, art criticism, and arts and cultural institutions. In each area, Brenson finds it imperative to consider issues such as responsibility, creativity, process, and voice - issues that have taken on increasing urgency as...