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Wangechi Mutu : I am speaking, are you listening?
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ISBN: 9781636810058 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York, N.Y. DelMonico Books

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Over the past two decades, Wangechi Mutu has created chimerical constellations of powerful female characters, hybrid beings, and fantastical landscapes. With a rare understanding of the need for powerful new mythologies beyond simple binaries and stereotypes, Mutu breaches common distinctions between human, animal, plant, and machine. At once seductive and threatening, her figures and environments take the viewer on journeys of material, psychological, and socio-political transformation. An artist who calls both Nairobi and New York City home, she moves voraciously between cultural traditions to challenge colonialist, racist, and sexist world views with her visionary projection of an alternate universe informed by Afrofuturism, Posthumanism, and Feminism. 

This presentation of Mutu's work-mounted at the Legion of Honor, a museum designed in the neoclassical style and built to showcase European art from antiquity through Impressionism-merges the histories, conventions, and traditions of her African origins and her Western education. The dazzling catalogue that will accompany this presentation will showcase Mutu's new work on view at the Legion, along with a greater selection from her oeuvre as it has grown in the time since her groundbreaking exhibition at the Nasher Museum of Art in 2013.

A century of sculpture : the Nasher collection
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ISBN: 0810968983 0892071788 0891071788 Year: 1996 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Guggenheim Museum Publications

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The Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Collection is renowned as one of the finest collections of Modern and contemporary sculpture in the world. Remarkable for its uniformly high level of quality as well as the depth of its representation of key artists, the collection spans more than a century, from the pioneering work of Paul Gauguin, Auguste Rodin, and Medardo Rosso late in the nineteenth century to contemporary developments reflected in works by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Tony Cragg, Claes Oldenburg, and Richard Serra, among others.

Lavishly illustrated in this volume are 136 works by fifty-eight artists, a selection that surveys many of the most important sculptural developments of the past one hundred years. In no other historical period have the definitions of sculpture been so dramatically challenged and expanded. The Nasher Collection is a celebration of the creative energies behind this Modernist tradition. Particularly notable is the presentation in depth of such masters as Alexander Calder, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Alberto Giacometti, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso, and David Smith; groupings of multiple works allow a broad picture of each artist's achievement.


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The sculpture of Louise Nevelson : constructing a legend
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ISBN: 9780300160253 0300160259 Year: 2007 Publisher: New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press

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Louise Nevelson (1900-1988) was a towering figure in postwar American art, exerting great influence with her monumental installations, innovative sculptures made of found objects, and celebrated public artworks. The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson focuses on all phases of the artist's remarkable ascent to the top of the art world, from her groundbreaking works of the 1940s to complex pieces completed in the late 1980s. The most extensive study of Nevelson to be published in over 20 years, this beautifully illustrated book also demonstrates how Nevelson's flamboyant style and carefully cultivated persona enhanced her reputation as an artist of the first rank. Essays by distinguished scholars examine a wide variety of important issues and themes throughout Nevelson's career, including the role of monochromatic color in her painted wooden sculpture; the art-historical context of her work; her acclaimed large-scale commissioned artworks, which established her as a central figure in the public art revival of the late 1960s; and her "self-fashioning" as a celebrated artist, particularly her origins as a Ukrainian-born Jewish immigrant to the United States. An illustrated chronology and exhibition history accompany the text. Published in conjunction with the first major exhibition of Nevelson's work in America since 1980, this book provides essential information on and insights into the study of a revolutionary 20th-century artist.

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