Revolution in the Making. Abstract Sculpture By Women 1947-2016

This book 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. Revolution in the Making 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 sections span the late 1950s through to toda and includey: an examination of abstraction based on the human figure and the influence of the unconscious; works by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Eva Hesse, Marisa Merz, Mira Schendel, Michelle Stuart, Hannah Wilke, and Jackie Winsor; the move beyond singular, three-dimensional objects towards architectonic works characterized by repetition, structure, and design; the use of installation-based environments, embracing domestic materials and craft as an embedded discourse.
- The catalogue is divided into four sections, featuring approximately 30 artists and nearly 100 works in total.
Paul Schimmel, curator, vice president at Hauser & Wirth; former chief curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Jenni Sorkin, curator; art historian and critic; assistant professor of contemporary art history, University of California, Santa Barbara. Elizabeth Smith, executive director of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation; former chief curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Anne M. Wagner; Internationally renowned art historian; Professor Emerita, modern and contemporary art history, University of California, Berkeley.