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Brenson Michael - David Smith The Art And Life Of A Transformational Sculptor - Paperback
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Description: An essential account of America's greatest sculptor A magnum opus. Marjorie Perloff The Times Literary Supplement The 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 sculptural experience was challenging the stability of any identity or position Smith sought out the unbounded unbalanced and unexpected creating works of art that seem to undergo radical shifts as the spectator moves from one point of view to another. So groundbreaking and prolific were his contributions to American art that by the time Smith was just forty years old Clement Greenberg was already calling him the greatest sculptor this country has produced. Michael Brenson's David Smith: The Art and Life of a Transformational Sculptor is the first biography of this epochal figure. It follows Smith from his upbringing in the Midwest to his heady early years in Manhattan to his decision to establish a permanent studio in Bolton Landing in upstate New York where he would create many of his most significant works among them the Cubis Tanktotems and Zigs. It explores his at times tempestuous personal life marked by marriages divorces and fallings - out as well as by deep friendships with fellow artists like Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell. His wife Jean Freas described him as salty and bombastic jumbo and featherlight thin - skinned and Mack Truck. And many more things. This enormous contradictory vitality was true of his work as well. He was a bricoleur a master welder a painter a photographer and a writer and he entranced critics and attracted admirers wherever he showed his work. With this book Brenson has contextualized Smith for a new generation and confirmed his singular place in the history of American art.
Title: David Smith The Art And Life Of A Transformational Sculptor
Author(s): Brenson Michael
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250872555
Pages: 864 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/23/2024
Category: Autobiography: Arts & Entertainment
Description: An essential account of America's greatest sculptor A magnum opus. Marjorie Perloff The Times Literary Supplement The 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 sculptural experience was challenging the stability of any identity or position Smith sought out the unbounded unbalanced and unexpected creating works of art that seem to undergo radical shifts as the spectator moves from one point of view to another. So groundbreaking and prolific were his contributions to American art that by the time Smith was just forty years old Clement Greenberg was already calling him the greatest sculptor this country has produced. Michael Brenson's David Smith: The Art and Life of a Transformational Sculptor is the first biography of this epochal figure. It follows Smith from his upbringing in the Midwest to his heady early years in Manhattan to his decision to establish a permanent studio in Bolton Landing in upstate New York where he would create many of his most significant works among them the Cubis Tanktotems and Zigs. It explores his at times tempestuous personal life marked by marriages divorces and fallings - out as well as by deep friendships with fellow artists like Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell. His wife Jean Freas described him as salty and bombastic jumbo and featherlight thin - skinned and Mack Truck. And many more things. This enormous contradictory vitality was true of his work as well. He was a bricoleur a master welder a painter a photographer and a writer and he entranced critics and attracted admirers wherever he showed his work. With this book Brenson has contextualized Smith for a new generation and confirmed his singular place in the history of American art.
Title: David Smith The Art And Life Of A Transformational Sculptor
Author(s): Brenson Michael
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250872555
Pages: 864 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/23/2024
Category: Autobiography: Arts & Entertainment
