Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Nevelson, Louise, 1899-1988
2. Reece-Hughes, Shirley
3. Amon Carter Museum of American Art, organizer, host institution
4. Colby College. Museum of Art, host institution

Description

1. 207 pages : illustrations (some color); 31 cm

Summary

1. "Through the voices of scholars, contemporary artists, family, and carefully selected artworks, a more nuanced picture of Louise Nevelson emerges in The World Outside: Louise Nevelson at Midcentury. A deep dive into the artist's beginnings with modern dance and her subsequent immersion in avant-garde theatrical trends brings new understandings of her drawings and sculptures. A reframing of Nevelson's travels to Mexico and Guatemala in 1950 and 1951, respectively, and her encounters with pre-Columbian art reveal for the first time how colonial archeology haunted her visual language for decades. Another previously undiscussed facet of Nevelson's life, her folk-art interests, provides a topic rife for understanding the artist's approach to America's material culture of the past. A pioneering examination of Nevelson's printmaking experiences at Tamarind Lithography Workshop reveals how the artist created alternative modes of viewing through unconventional methods and materials. Also discussed anew is Nevelson's stated intention of creating the "in-between," examined here as an endemic and connecting core principle of her work. A fresh look recontextualizes Nevelson's experiences during the rise of environmentalism and relays previously undisclosed connections between her art and the ecology movement. And finally, in the five "reflection essays" contemporary voices from the dance and art worlds describe Nevelson's vaunted role in their careers; a local expert discusses Nevelson's roots and relationship to Maine in vivid detail; and the artist's granddaughter shares intimate insights into Nevelson's thoughts on spirituality"--

Uniform title

1. World outside (Amon Carter Museum of American Art)

Alternative title

1. Louise Nevelson at midcentury.

Subject

1. Nevelson, Louise, 1899-1988 -- Exhibitions
2. Nevelson, Louise, 1899-1988

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs.

Contents

1. "Dance was carrying America" : Louise Nevelson in the 1930s / Jane Dini -- Choreographing the Air / Ellen Graff -- "A World of Geometry and Magic" : Louise Nevelson's Encounters with Maya Art / Mary Coffey -- The Chapel of Love and Beyond : On Nevelson's Path of Self-Discovery / Maria Nevelson.

Call number

1. JQG 24-137

Note

1. Published in the occasion of the exhibition of the same title, held at Amon Carter Museum of American Art, For Worth, Texas, August 27, 2023, through January 7, 2024 and Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, February 6 through June 9, 2024.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. The world outside : Louise Nevelson at midcentury / Shirley Reece-Hughes, editor.

Publisher

1. Fort Worth : Amon Carter Museum of American Art, [2023]

Distributor

1. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press

Copyright date

1. ©2023

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Nevelson, Louise, 1899-1988.
2. Reece-Hughes, Shirley, editor.
3. Amon Carter Museum of American Art, organizer, host institution.
4. Colby College. Museum of Art, host institution.

LCCN

1. 2022061480

ISBN

1. 9780300272628 (hardcover)
2. 0300272626

Research call number

1. JQG 24-137