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Book SynopsisA daring reassessment of Louise Nevelson, an icon of twentieth-century art whose innovative procedures relate to gendered, classed, and racialized forms of making
Trade Review“[Bryan-Wilson] shows why Nevelson’s sculpture matters today, and that art history can be a tool for responding to what is happening now.”—Sophie Oliver,
Times Literary Supplement“Boldly conceived, Julia Bryan-Wilson’s far-reaching study gives us a multidirectional understanding of Louise Nevelson’s intersectional abstraction that renders the artist strikingly contemporary.”—Kobena Mercer, author of
Travel & See: Black Diaspora Art Practices since the 1980s“Julia Bryan-Wilson’s
Louise Nevelson is exceptional in its innovative framing, physical structure, and above all, brilliantly original weaving of personal experience, material analysis, and art historical methodologies.”—Jo Applin, author of
Lee Lozano: Not Working“Bryan-Wilson brings world-class critical, feminist, and social-historical skills to bear on Nevelson’s sculpture and public persona. The result is that we see Nevelson’s radiant intelligence in a new light.”—Richard Meyer, author of
Master of the Two Left Feet: Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered“From the multicomponent design to the conceptual approaches therein, Bryan-Wilson has crafted an innovative and engaging look at Louise Nevelson. Further, she offers a queered, critical methodology that changes the game.”—Bridget R. Cooks, author of
Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum
