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Revolution in the making : abstract sculpture by women, 1947-2016 / Contributions by Emily Rothrum, Elizabeth A. T. Smith & Jenni Sorkin.

Contributor(s): Rothrum, Emily [writer of added commentary.] | Smith, Elizabeth A. T, 1958- [writer of added commentary.] | Sorkin, Jenni [writer of added commentary,, editor.] | Hauser Wirth & Schimmel [host institution.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Milan : Skira ; [New York] : Hauser & Wirth, 2016Distributor: New York, NY : Rizzoli International Publications, Inc, 2016Description: 256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9788857230658 (hardback); 8857230651; 9788857231303; 8857231305.Other title: Abstract sculpture by women, 1947-2016.Subject(s): Sculpture, Abstract -- Exhibitions | Women sculptors -- Exhibitions | Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions | Sculpture, Modern -- 21st century -- Exhibitions | Women sculptors -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 735.23
Contents:
Iwan and Manuela Wirth -- Paul Schimmel and Jenni Sorkin -- Paul Schimmel -- What can be done, what I must learn, what there is to do...: process, materials, and narrative in the 1950s / Elizabeth A.T. Smith -- Ruth Asawa, Lee Bontecou, Louise Bourgeois, Claire Falkenstein, Louise Nevelson -- What women do, or The poetics of sculpture / Anne M. Wagner -- Magdalena Abakanowicz, Lynda Benglis, Heidi Bucher, Gego, Francoise Grossen, Eva Hesse, Sheila Hicks, Yayoi Kusama, Mira Schendel, Michelle Stuart, Hannah Wilke, Jackie Winsor -- Five propositions on abstract sculpture / Jenni Sorkin -- Isa Genzken, Cristina Iglesias, Liz Larner, Anna Maria Maiolino, Marisa Merz, Senga Nengudi, Lygia Pape, Ursula von Rydingsvard -- Phyllida Barlow, Karla Black, Abigail DeVille, Sonia Gomes, Rachel Khedoori, Lara Schnitger, Shinique Smith, Jessica Stockholder, Kaari Upson -- Emily Rothrum -- Emily Rothrum
Review: The catalogue accompanies the most comprehensive exhibition of postwar abstract sculpture by women artists. Revolution in the Making traces the ways in which women artists deftly transformed the language of sculpture. The volume seeks to identify the multiple strains of proto-feminist practices, characterized by abstraction and repetition, which rejected the singularity of the masterwork. Divided into four sections, the book will feature approximately thirty artists and nearly 100 works in total: the postwar era (the late 1950s) including such historically important predecessors as Ruth Asawa, Lee Bontecou, Louise Bourgeois, Claire Falkenstein, and Louise Nevelson; the 1960s and 1970s, highlighting a generation of post-minimalist artists who ignited a revolution in their use of process-oriented materials and methods; the 1980s and 1990s, the period that moved beyond singular, three-dimensional objects toward architectonic works characterized by repetition, structure, and design; and post-2000 works by artists who created installation-based environments, embracing domestic materials and craft as an embedded discourse. -- Publisher's description
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Half theWorld traces the ways in which women artists deftly transformed the language of sculpture to invent radically new forms and processes that privileged studio practice, tactility and the artist's hand. The volume seeks to identify the multiple strains of proto-feminist practices, characterized by abstraction and repetition, which rejected the singularity of the masterwork and rearranged sculptural form to be contingent upon the way the body moved around it in space. The catalogue begins in the immediate post-war era, with the first section spanning the late 1950s through the 1950s. Featuring historically important predecessors including Ruth Asawa, Lee Bontecou, Louise Bourgeois, Claire Falkenstein and Louise Nevelson, this section examines abstraction based on the human figure and the influence of the unconscious. The second section covers the decades of the 1960s and 1970s, and includes Magdalena Abakanowicz, Lynda Benglis, Heidi Bucher, Gego, François Grossen, Eva Hesse, Sheila Hicks, Marisa Merz, Mira Schendel, Michelle Stuart, Hannah Wilke, and Jackie Winsor, a generation of post-minimalist artists who ignited a revolution in their use of process-oriented materials and methods. In the 1980s and 1990s, the period explored in the third section, artists Phyllida Barlow, Isa Genzken, Cristina Iglesias, Liz Larner, Anna Maria Maiolino, Senga Nengudi, and Ursula von Rydingsvard moved beyond singular, three-dimensional objects toward architectonic works characterized by repetition, structure, and design. The final section is comprised of post-2000 works by artists Karla Black, Abigail DeVille, Sonia Gomes, Rachel Khedoori, Lara Schnitger, Shinique Smith, and Jessica Stockholder, artists who create installation-based environments, embracing domestic materials and craft as an embedded discourse.

Artists represented: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Ruth Asawa, Phyllida Barlow, Lynda Benglis, Karla Black, Lee Bontecou, Louise Bourgeois, Heidi Bucher, Abigail Deville, Claire Falkenstein, Gego, Isa Genzken, Sonia Gomes, Francoise Grossen, Eva Hesse, Sheila Hicks, Cristina Iglesias, Rachel Khedoori, Yayoi Kusama, Liz Larner, Anna Maria Maiolino, Marisa Merz, Senga Nengudi, Louise Nevelson, Lygia Pape, Mira Schendel, Lara Schnitger, Shinique Smith, Jessica Stockholder, Michelle Stuart, Kaari Upson, Ursula Von Rydingsvard, Hannah Wilke, Jackie Winsor

Includes bibliographical references

Preface / Iwan and Manuela Wirth -- Foreword / Paul Schimmel and Jenni Sorkin -- Acknowledgments / Paul Schimmel -- What can be done, what I must learn, what there is to do...: process, materials, and narrative in the 1950s / Elizabeth A.T. Smith -- Ruth Asawa, Lee Bontecou, Louise Bourgeois, Claire Falkenstein, Louise Nevelson -- What women do, or The poetics of sculpture / Anne M. Wagner -- Magdalena Abakanowicz, Lynda Benglis, Heidi Bucher, Gego, Francoise Grossen, Eva Hesse, Sheila Hicks, Yayoi Kusama, Mira Schendel, Michelle Stuart, Hannah Wilke, Jackie Winsor -- Five propositions on abstract sculpture / Jenni Sorkin -- Isa Genzken, Cristina Iglesias, Liz Larner, Anna Maria Maiolino, Marisa Merz, Senga Nengudi, Lygia Pape, Ursula von Rydingsvard -- Phyllida Barlow, Karla Black, Abigail DeVille, Sonia Gomes, Rachel Khedoori, Lara Schnitger, Shinique Smith, Jessica Stockholder, Kaari Upson -- Exhibition checklist -- Artists' biographies and selected bibliographies / Emily Rothrum -- Selected group exhibitions / Emily Rothrum

The catalogue accompanies the most comprehensive exhibition of postwar abstract sculpture by women artists. Revolution in the Making traces the ways in which women artists deftly transformed the language of sculpture. The volume seeks to identify the multiple strains of proto-feminist practices, characterized by abstraction and repetition, which rejected the singularity of the masterwork. Divided into four sections, the book will feature approximately thirty artists and nearly 100 works in total: the postwar era (the late 1950s) including such historically important predecessors as Ruth Asawa, Lee Bontecou, Louise Bourgeois, Claire Falkenstein, and Louise Nevelson; the 1960s and 1970s, highlighting a generation of post-minimalist artists who ignited a revolution in their use of process-oriented materials and methods; the 1980s and 1990s, the period that moved beyond singular, three-dimensional objects toward architectonic works characterized by repetition, structure, and design; and post-2000 works by artists who created installation-based environments, embracing domestic materials and craft as an embedded discourse. -- Publisher's description

Publication to accompany an exhibition held at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, Los Angeles, CA, March 13-September 4, 2016

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Paul Schimmel is curator and vice president at Hauser & Wirth. He is the former chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Jenni Sorkin is a curator, art historian, critic, and assistant professor of contemporary art history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Elizabeth Smith is executive director of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation and former chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Anne M. Wagner is an internationally renowned art historian and professor emerita of modern and contemporary art history at the University of California, Berkeley.